The PlayStation Portal at least makes stick drift easier to repair

It’s easier than fixing stick drift on DualSense controllers.

[OtterX]

I'm glad this is addressed, as I've seen this concern a number of times now, and was a bit concerned for it myself. Glad to hear it's an easy fix!

[Eonjay]

Right. Especially given that the Portal is $200... being able to easily replace them yourself is ideal.

[Vits]

The sticks are "vita-style" which makes them much easier to substitute. Just two screws and a ribbon cable. Now the question is if we are going to see any third-party manufacturer making those stick modules so they can be cheap like the PS Vita 2000 or if like the Vita 1000 people will be stuck paying $15 to $20 for a single original module.

[just_looken]

Look at those downvotes yet right now sony has stopped making DS4 pads psvr 1 gear and has made the ps5 a ewaist king.

VITS is 100% right but sadly the customer base loves ewaist.

[Mr_cheese]

Are you trying to say e-waste? 🤣

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Good stuff I wished they'll release vita 2 imo

[jznrpg]

Me too but I’m happy with the portal

[S2Killinit]

Me too. But I’m really happy with Portal as well.

[Eonjay]

I guess I'm the odd man out. I like the fact that the hundreds of PS4/PS5 games I already own are usable in mobile. I don't want to have to buy a whole new set of games. Also, this addresses my biggest Vita issue which was memory sticks. Also graphics are top notch.

[anast]

It's not hard to fix on the other controllers, it if isn't completely shot.

[porkChop]

Every first party controller/device should be using hall effect sticks at this point. But then you'd have less reason to buy new, overpriced controllers.

[Stanjara]

Yup, planned obsolescence. Nintendo knew exactly what they're doing.

[jznrpg]

I still don’t have stick drift on any my controllers. I treat my controllers very well but my young daughters do not and they still don’t have stick drift on their PS4 controllers to my surprise. I won’t let them touch my Portal so I don’t foresee getting stick drift ever.

[Vipre77]

Me either. Never had it on any controllers on any system in my 40 years of video gaming. I'm not convinced that it is as big of a problem as people make it out to be. I never even heard the term prior to the issues people had on the Switch joy cons and I've never heard of many people having the issue on any other system. Certainly, controllers and the sticks on those controllers do wear our over time, but "stick drift" as I understand the issue it does not seem to be a wear issue. It seem to me that the issue is simply having too small of a dead zone at center position or crappy springs that lose their tension over time preventing the stick from returning to center properly. People act like manufacturers have started to make these things lower in quality now than they've ever been before and I just don't believe that to be true at all.

[Vipre77]

Hot take: Stick drift just isn't that much of a problem outside of the Nintendo Switch and never has been, so quit getting so bent out of shape about it.

I've been gaming on many different consoles and PC's since the early 80's and I've never once run into this as a problem. I've had some consoles with overly large dead zones at center position, but never had a problem with "stick drift" though I have had a few broken sticks over the years where the switch is stuck one direction. That's not drift, though. That's just a broken microswitch on a digital joystick. I think people are making a bigger deal of this than it is. People act like it's some kind of rampant widespread scourge across every device ever made and that analog joysticks are now made worse quality than ever before when it just isn't true. it's to the point now that I just roll my eyes as soon as I even see the words "stick drift."

[1nsomniac]

You’re just a delicate little flower aren’t you.