With Toshiba's announcement that it is to cease manufacture of HD DVD players, the High-Definition format wars are now over. With Blu-Ray left standing, some, such as Rob Beschizza at Wired are now saying that digital downloads will now kill Blu-Ray.
Nintendo Switch 2 stick drift is already an issue, but accessory makers are already working on magnetic joysticks.
I've never had stick drift in any controller I've ever owned. All my joycons (3 sets) from my Switch are perfectly fine. My Switch 2 ones are good. Never had a dualshock / dualsense have it (did have a dualshock get a stuck trigger once). Even my Valve Index controllers which were notorious for drift were fine for me.
Varies. Just because you've never had one doesn't mean others won't. I've had PS, Xbox, and Nintendo controllers indeed drift on me. Remember the drift lawsuits that Nintendo has had.
Please stop trying to say that traditional potentiometers are absolutely fine when hall effect/tmr sticks are beyond superior lol, not sure why so many people keep trying to defend potentiometers when hall effects are so pro consumer.
Companies like nintendo, sony, and mcsft don't want to implement them simply because they want you the consumer to keep buying them. Most casuals will just buy a new controller if theirs difts, easy money for the big 3.
I've gone hall effects and have never gone back, can leave my controllers out absolutely fine without worry of dust ruining the sticks.
when did I say that traditional joysticks are absolutely fine? I'm sharing my own experience here. I never said that others don't experience issues, nor that this is somehow acceptable. Strange leapfrog from A to B on that one.
People love to say it's a huge widespread issue, yet you only hear about it because the minority is vocal whereas the majority don't report anything because they are fine.
I'm happy you switched to hall effect sticks, if that's what works for you, then awesome.
Cool? Pretty sure this is for those who are having it happen. Not sure how your anecdote addresses other peoples' problems.
people around here act like everyone will get drift. I'm willing to wager more people won't get drift than will.
lucky you. I've only had minor drift once in my L Joycon which I fixed with some card stock, but drift is an undeniable problem as a whole.
My 2 sets of Joy-Cons from my OG Switch started to drift with just a month of use. That is why I bought Dobe Joy-Cons with just $25, and until now they are still fine. I hope this will never happen again on my Switch 2.
My left joy con for the OG Switch got stick drift right away as well. I never had issues with my PS5 controllers since launch until I got my kids PS5’s and they had stick drift with 2 controllers. They drop them because they are kids and although I have them wash their hands before gaming they still get gunk under them somehow. I got their controllers modded because they would have issues no matter what I have them do.
"people around here act like everyone will get drift. I'm willing to wager more people won't get drift than will."
no, nobody is acting like that, you're jsut exaggerating it and lying to downplay a problem
you know, i said the same thing not too long ago and then BOOM both controllers ha.
one on the moving stick and one on the look around stick.
both suck arse. ha
The tech is already there. I had a couple of my PS5 controllers modded with Hall Effect modules and they work great. They should come standard with them these days but they don’t.
Nyxi already made some fantastic Hall Effect controllers for Switch 1. I don't know why Nintendo couldn't have it by now if Nyxi has had for years.
Cheap, frictionless sensors ALREADY exist. Why are they "working hard to combat stick drift"? Stick drift should be a thing of the past at this point. The technology is here...NOW. It has been...for YEARS! Why is stick drift even still spoken about? It shouldn't exist!
Because its a scam for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to sell more overpriced controllers.
WD 40 if it's shagg.d anyway why not ? I ordered a new ps5 pad after Helldivers 2 and POE 2 became unplayable due to drift but in the meantime I fired a bit of WD on my balls just below my stick rotated in a clockwise fashion massaging it in so to speak and also did the pin reset thingy and all clean no drift and hit that cancel purchase button like I meant it
Honestly I’ve used my original Switch JoyCons and Pro Controller since launch and only in the last year did I see drift start to show up on one of my JoyCons. I’m sure it happens depending on how much and how firm the joystick is used, but it seems like a minor issue that goes with wear and tear after thousands of hours of play. I wish there had been Hall Effect sticks on Switch 2 just so there’s one less thing to worry about, but I’m not really concerned about it.
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Yeah, an Super 8 is making a huge comeback. Please... These idiots get paid for these opinions. Can you believe this? It's insulting to say the very least.
Digital downloads are about 5 years out from becoming normal and about 7 to 8 years from becoming standard. There is a whole community of middle class and poor who cannot afford blu-ray, let alone high speed connections and LCD HDTV's to go along with them. They can, however, afford DVd's and rentals and wal-mart bargain bin movies.
They also make up the bulk of the money going into the industry... Cause when you have money and you're well to do you're not always buying movies on a regular basis. You're out doing things that don't apply to sitting on your ass. When you're middle class and below you do.
So when you can make it easier to download HD content for those people... Tell me about how DD is going to kill of BD. mmmkay?
Right now, and I have one of the best connections you can get, it still takes me longer to download my content than it would for me to go to the store and buy it. I.E. movies.
Xbox lives digital distribution is slow and painful. It's not there and we're not ready. Sorry.
Blu-ray will be standard for the next 8 years. Deal with it and cry about it later.
Why have something digitaly when you can have something phisically which is better?
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Wrong article all together... I had this elaborate argument laid out to. "ha"
I wrote this earlier when I was on my huge rant during the wave of B.S. we got when everyone was making excuses as to why Sony hasn't won yet.
Jumped the gun and missed that "not"
digital download won't kill blu-ray. it might be the successor AFTER blu-ray is in its dying stage, but who knows, unless the WORLD (not US only) gets broadband to the majority of houses, a hard copy will still exist.
Having things in their hands. People like collecting and showing off. People like easily just picking something up going to friend/family house and putting it in. Also unless most ppl like just renting they will have to fork out a considerable amount of money to dl a huge hd movie. Movies and music are massivly different in size no one is going to want to have to dl shyt loads of movies onto their computer slows down comp and you eventually run out of space. Even if they make a device to dl it on it could not be more than what 350 gigs. Your gunna run out of space sometime what you going to do then your going to have to delete some of the movies you payed for to make space for another. Not to mention people can barely use dvd players let alone have digital downloads as a standard. The industry wont even a low it they would never want to rule out a physical disc not at least in the next 10 years. Thats where they make most of the money and not to mention when things tend to hit the internet a lot of illegal dling tend to happen which is harder to control then ppl on the street selling bootlegs. Blue ray will be around for a LONG time because that is a multi-billion dollar industry which is not going away anytime soon.