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For what it's worth, we've had non-Hall Effect sticks for generations, and they've mostly been fine on everything else but JoyCons. We won't know whether these actually are as fragile as original JoyCons were until we start hearing reports of broken sticks.
No, they haven't. Old Xbox and PlayStation controllers often end up with stick drift being what kills them.
On top of that, newer games that have deadzone settings actually let you see how much games have to compensate for stick drift.
A normal 'working' controller, is likely unable to use the first 10% of it's motion range because it has to filter that out for stick drift. That makes the controls feel way less responsive compared to a hall effect stick where you can eliminate or minimize the deadzone.
I had a lot of PS4 controllers get stick drift. A few minutes, some tools, and a lot of rubbing alcohol in the pot or whatever mechanism (the cube thatbis actually the analog stick) solved it every time. It's dust. It's dust and grime. It's solveable.
I have a feeling that most people play video games way more than I do. In 34 years of gaming, I've never experienced stick drift (not even on the Switch). The only joysticks I've ever had go bad on me were on the Nintendo 64. But they would literally wear out from plastic rubbing against plastic, never drift.
Hard disagree. If you have a non hall effect controller long enough it will degrade. Its a frustrating issue even if you know how to repair it. At this point I just don't buy those types of controllers anymore since there are other options often with better prices. I'm not as familiar with the joycon third party market though.
I've had non-Hall Effect controllers for as long as I've been gaming, which is to say since the N64, and JoyCon 1s are the only ones I've ever had problems with. This is brand new tech, we've lived without it before. Sure, it would be nice to have, but I feel like people are just hastily jumping to the assumption that these controllers will be just as brittle as JoyCon 1s were. That is an assumption we do not know.
Hall effect encoders/sticks are not new tech. They've been around for decades.
Remember the Sega Dreamcast? It came out 26 years ago and featured hall effect sticks in the controllers.
I still don't have issues with the Joycons after a few years. We don't use it a ton, but we do have kids mashing the joysticks in Smash and it has held up so far. We have two sets of Joycons and a Pro controller, and none have drift issues.