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Let's hope this isn't just a random patent, and we actually get better sticks next generation.

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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading your edit here.

I won't buy a Nintendo controller again until they're out for awhile and I know they're good.

The two I have are garbage and I didn't even get drift. The stick flick makes a lot of high precision games unplayable. And most of the time I use a third party controller that's better, more reliable, and half the price.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's fair enough, I suppose. Like I said elsewhere I've had more problems with the PS5 controllers than the Switch ones, but my guess is this is luck of the draw. Some people just don't like the Joycon form factor, and that's also fair. I have some wrist issues and split controllers are amazing for my specific issues, so I'm very on board with the design for very specific reasons.

FWIW, I suspect a lot of the issues people report with those things are down to connectivity, not build quality. The BT antenna in those is terrible and it's being power starved to run on their tiny batteries. I've used literally hundreds of Joycon at one point or another and rarely seen legit stick drift, but I've had controllers where in a noisy environment just your hand grip could make the connection get all flaky. What the Switch does in that scenario seems to be to just hold your stick position and call it a day, which isn't great.