You can't tell me we got full teams of engineers working on controller design and they can't fix an issue that's been here since the playsation 1's controllers?
Posted by Clownsanity_Reddit
You can't tell me we got full teams of engineers working on controller design and they can't fix an issue that's been here since the playsation 1's controllers?
Posted by Clownsanity_Reddit
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Typo on the word “buy”.
Yeah i’m sure they make more money from controllers in the long run than selling consoles
Btw get some TMR sticks and find someone that replace them for you
It’s called planned obsolescence and it’s the same with every product you buy. They could build products that last for decades but that wouldn’t be good for business. I believe I recall hearing or reading that battery companies could literally make batteries that last for decades but it would essentially destroy their value proposition and tank the companies.
The solution has been known for ages; hall effect joysticks. They’re not perfect but they’re a hell of a lot better potentiometers. There’s a booming aftermarket for retro-fit/replacement hall effect sensors for most controllers and even entire devices like the Steam Deck.
I’ve never had an issue with stick drift. I think it’s just an issue tied to pressing too hard onto the sticks for things like sprinting, etc.
I bought a PS5 spare pad for £35 with my pro, a real bargain but my original has a broken R1-L2 from FF7 rebirth. Worth breaking a pad for that game tho.
The price of a UK, PS5 pad is now £65. The normal PS5 went up in price and I can see the pro being sold for more as soon as GTA 6, runs better on it.
Planned obsoletion isn’t a new thing. It started in the 1960s.
The Dreamcast had this fix all the way back in 1999 – a hall effect stick.
Unfortunately not a conspiracy, it’s planned obsolescence, Logitech CEO claimed they could make a “forever mouse” but that would request consumers to pay a subscription to use it, beneath Faber’s concept, you see the reality, the idea is to squeeze the consumer, they don’t want to make a product that could work for 20 years, how could they grow profit ?, but they totally can do this, and it’s a real paradox with what you hear for 10 years about pollution or when they speak about climate change.
They’re cheap assess. Easily solvable with hall effect sensors. I don’t buy first party controllers any more for that reason, there’s so many now that are much better than the OE ones.