switch 2 is looking like a perfect console every passing day
no more joycon drift!
switch 2 is looking like a perfect console every passing day. no more joycon drift!
switch 2 is looking like a perfect console every passing day
no more joycon drift!
I've never had joycon drift
then buy a switch so you can experience it for yourself
I don't think pretty much majority of people have ever experienced it
I never even experienced it myself without forcing it through a trick on the gamecube
I have used pads for hundreds of hours and never had drift
so it must be really extreme usage to get drift
Congrats I guess?
Me and 3 friend all got joycon drift.
skill issue. You’re probably mistaking the gyro aiming for drift.
Ah yes, the gyro that made me Animal Crossing character walk constantly left. My mistake.
What kind of retarded mongoloid is hitting the stick so hard it permanently points left
Take better care of your shit chud
How many of your friends are black or mexican or Irish?
Probably leaves it upside down and sits his fat ass on it
>I don't think pretty much majority of people have ever experienced it
Speak for yourself. Me and my circle of friends all had switches and we'd joke about needing to replace our joycons every six months because of drift. It was literally that frequent.
>You’re probably mistaking the gyro aiming for drift.
Yeah, I bet gyro aiming affects games that don't support gyro and the home menu too, right dumbass? It was the joysticks. One time I literally had the left joystick crap out on me in the middle of a Final Fantasy X session, and was forced to replace it that week.
>speak for yourself
I don't get why you're taking personal offense over something so minor
pretty much almost all the consoles before there was never really any bitching about drift
so why now?
>pretty much almost all the consoles before there was never really any bitching about drift
>so why now?
Because switch is literally THE WORST offender in regards to drifiting, PERIOD. I have owned MANY consoles and controllers over the years, and never have I EVER had the same shitty experience that I've had with the joycons. It has been an absolute fucking nightmare and huge money sink for me, my friends, and from what I can tell, most other people in general. There are literally teardowns of the joysticks online that explain exactly why the joycon joysticks are so shitty and prone to drifting compared to normal joysticks, and it's because of the fact that they took normal "cheap" joystick technology (graphite pads) and made it more compact to fit into the tiny joycons, causing them to be more "brittle" than normal ones. Nintendo ABSOLUTELY needed to ditch graphite pads sooner, and fuck them or waiting this long.
>I don't get why you're taking personal offense over something so minor
Fuck you, paying $500 for replacement controllers over the span of 5 years isn't "minor". In total those replacements cost more than the God damn console itself. I'm pirating ALL Nintendo games from now on for making me buy multiple pairs of joycons over the years. FUCK NINTENDO. NEVER AGAIN.
>he gave nintendo 500$ for controllers instead of just buying third party like a king kong pro
>wrote a entire blog post just to my simple post
seek help
>just replace the joycons with this third party "King Kong Pro" controller hurr durr
Does this look like it slides onto each side of the switch, you stupid mouth breathing gay? have a nice day.
Buenos dias senor
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Got these to fix the drift on my switch, they work great. They're a little fiddly to install if you have big sausage fingers like me, but not too bad. Literally no reason to buy a new joycon now IMO -- get a used one with drift and install these.
I never knew about these to begin with, and it looks like these weren't even available during the period of time where I went through most of my joycons (I haven't touched my switch in a few years, and most of the replacements happened like 4 or more years ago), so this wouldn't have made a difference anyways. Either way I'm not buying another Nintendo product for a LONG time after this bullshit.
Literally have a nice day. Nobody wants to hear your retardation anymore. You're not getting any more replies from me after this.
>"just replace the joycons with a controller that can't be used in the side rails hurr durr. Maybe you should cut the controller in half so it fits! Durr..."
Stupid fucking moron.
I hear people reporting drift on the dual sense just as much, the only difference is that there wasn't a smear campaign against them pushed by gaming influencers because hating Nintendo is the cool thing to do
Well I've had my PS5 since launch and haven't had drift. I also haven't heard of many people having drift either. It seems like it's higher than what used to be common 15 years ago but it's nowhere near as common as joycon drift. Like I said there are teardowns explaining exactly why the joycon sticks are so much more prone to drifting than normal sticks. It's literally a result of how they designed it to be smaller than normal.
>because hating Nintendo is the cool thing to do
It's wild how true this is. Even in steam deck threads people will start shitting on the switch unprovoked.
stop responding to the chud ninchuddrone
it knows it is bullshitting but has to beg for yous anyway
Why the fuck are you getting so defensive? Most people didn't get joycon drift. Sorry if this upsets you but what a stupid thing to bitch about.
I
mistakingly thought you were the other guy responding to me previously, but if you're samefagging then my reply still applies.
I've owned a Switch since day 1 with no drift.
Post a video of your sticks in the calibration screen right now or you're lying.
who asked?
Production issue. I'm gentle as fuck with anything that costs me more than $50 and even if something goes wrong, I try and figure out how to fix it. Left joycon shit the bed real quick. If I spend $400 on something I expect it to last more than a fucking year and even then, if it doesn't, I should be able to fix it without having to wait 7 weeks for a $5 replacement part.
Nintendo is hands-down the Apple of consoles. They've done nothing but cut corners for how many fucking years and produce nothing but subpar devices. Yes. I am still seething that a modern day console requires a smartphone to use voice chat on P2P servers. Hands down some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen other people nigh gleefully accept.
I'm still laughing about freeshop though. How fucking incompetent do you have to be to let people download shit for free from your servers?
>spoiler
The Vita had a similar thing and IIRC Sony didn't bother to fight it, so it's still up.
Yeah, I've got a vita too and it's still up.. I think. It has too many ps1/p games for it to not have some type of third party server involved. I could be entirely wrong though. PKGj? Jesus fuck christ I haven't touched my vita in three weeks and it's still got 20% charge.
What makes it funny to me is the difference between Nintendo and Sony fans. I threw the towel in with Nintendo when it was all the TN/IPS 3ds screens. Don't know why I even bother buying a switch.
>when it was all the TN/IPS 3ds screens
This discussion was literally peak retardation, the vast majority of people posting about this couldn't even tell what they had without direct comparison and even then people would get it wrong all the time, I feel like the outrage was 100% fabricated
It was to an extent and just stupid fucking corporate dicksucking, but if you had any clue as to which was what, then you'd wanna be able to buy an IPS without it being chance. I honestly wouldn't have cared if I didn't luck out and got a TN instead, but it's the whole idea that in some sense the company won't admit it, but they know they're selling to retards. The same device with different components of varying quality and value being sold for the same price is just a dogshit move.
To make it clear: I had an OG 3DS that I fucking bricked when the hacks came out that had a TN screen and my XL I lucked out with an IPS. There is a clear difference.
Same. The joycons are awkward and feel cheap as fuck but I've never had them malfunction in any way let alone the memecon drift.
>like
That’s a cool dollar they saved on their $400 handheld.
>subscribe and hit the bell notification
Gross image.
qrd?
I used my switch for years with no drift since I played mainly using a gamecube controller. Then randomly, drift out of nowhere while the joycons were connected. I can't imagine usage is the determining factor.
yeah i think it could be age related too. I only play on my switch like twice a year when a new game i want drops, and I've been getting drift since 2019 in my left joy-con.
I probably have less than 500 hours total on it and use the pro 90% of the time
I don't get why it would be age related
all the controllers of the past used the same tech
and you can find thousands of controllers with no drift at all from the ps2 and xbox era
sega was way ahead of the time tech wise and had hall effect back then
it would be nice for every controller to have hall effect but at the same time
I'm not going to refuse to use old controllers because of it
I think the biggest problem of this is just simply knowing if it's actually because of the joycons or is it because of the dirt and dust or simply a defect in design
based. Switch 2 will win the next generation
moron.
>fixing a problem you created in the first place
I am going to miss the free joycon repair window. You can literally shit up a pair of joycons and they'll just send you a fresh pair nowadays.
>n64 stick drift
>gamecube especially c-stick drift
>wii nunchuck is still fine
eat the millions of dollars it will take to have your proudly made machine to have lasting controllers. it's got to be easier to throw money at the start than deal with the migraine of repairs and replacements. they're a company who can actually use an ounce of prevention to save themselves the pound of cure
I never had an issue with the N64 stick, probably because retards didn't put a button under it. Weren't playing Mario Party were you?
just a lot of smash 64. but even my parents noticed the joystick thing when trying to play, so that's why i got a cool new green translucent controller
how do you get n64 stick drift? they get really loose after a while but ive never had any of them drift, dont even think theyre capable of drifting since theres not really anything there to cause it to stick in a direction outside the deadzone since the deadzone is affected by how loose the stick is to begin with
The way the N64 analog sticks are built they will slowly wear down physically (as in, plastic-on-plastic contact making the stick's parts rub off over time), which makes them unable to stay properly centered after enough time. You usually saw this getting accelerated if you played games like Mario Party that asked rapid spins of the stick, but it can happen with regular use.
I'm convinced that what causes drifting is dust build up for leaving the joycons exposed since most people only play it docked, I had a lite for years and now an OLED for over an year and never had drift, but I also always kept them in a case since I play mostly portable
You're wrong. I got drift 3 separate times and I only ever play handheld. However I haven't had any drift with any joycons bought within the past 3 years
He said playing it handheld AND keeping it in a case retard. It was a dust buildup. inb4 you change your story like a chud
Doesn't change the fact that my case habits never changed, but the frequency of drift dropped after a few years. Nintendo changed the mechanics inside most likely, otherwise I would've gotten drift again
The only controller I ever experienced drift was the dual shock 3, went through like 5 and all of them had some sort of drift to some degree
>Hall Effect joysticks get their name from The Hall Effect, which is in turn named after its founder Edwin Hall.
>The Hall Effect represents a change in voltage that is caused when a magnetic field interferes with an electrical flow from a conductor.
>Hall Effect joysticks use this principle by having permanent magnets in them that move in relative to an electrical conductor. The voltage change that then occurs is converted to positional data to track the joystick’s movements.
>Since the components in a Hall Effect joystick never physically touch, the sensors do not wear out like they do on analog joysticks. This means that in theory, Hall Effect joysticks never develop drift in their lifetime.
There, I saved you a google search.
Didn't ask, nerd.
Thank you helpful poster fren
What kind of retarded mongoloid thinks he has any business posting about something he knows literally nothing about?
Why don't use optical sensors like in the mouse? They are dirt cheap and have insane accuracy now with 10000+ DPI.
>Hall Effect
THIS IS A LIE. HALL EFFECT IS SOME ECHO SHIT. IF YOU SEE THIS YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE WRONG DIMENSION
inb4 it gets hacked early due to some hardware fuckup again
Tendies are trying to pretend drift doesn't exist now?
The rest of the internet already pretends it doesn't exist on anything but joycons already
they have severe mental illness
preasu undastandu
>didnt get drift so it doesnt exist chuddie!
yep, we really are here now, even though nintendo themselves have stepped up to address the issue
i dont understand how some nintendo fans are so mentally ill
why is the chud chimping out itt, pretending drift only affected handful of people?
I dunno if my joycons have drift because I never used them after I got those hori joycons that feel more like a full-sized controller.
My joycons never drifted, but somehow the 2nd of three pro controllers started to drift when Xenoblade 3 came out.
>Hall joysticks with no drift
>Complete backwards compatibility with the first Switch
>Hardware is good enough to be able to always consistently hit 1080p 60fps with no drops
I shit on Nintendo a lot but if these three things happen I will literally become the world's biggest Nintendo cocksucker
Otherwise I don't really care and will probably just wait until whatever Switch 2 emulator comes out
PS Vita had hall effect. Get rekt zoomer.
Too bad it had no games.
Bro this was just a ploy by all the gaming console makers. During the 360/Ps3 days we had hardware issues that will eventually kill most of those systems. They had controllers that are near indestructible. Now they went two generations with trash controllers on purpose so customers had to buy new controllers constantly. Now they will go back to indestructible controllers with faulty hardware(or digital only).
JUST BRING BACK THE GOAT
Yeah i game with a Walkman
Don't knock it til you try it, that enterprise wannabe is the single best video game controller to ever exist.
is there some bullshit like this but with buttons ?
that membrane they use generally is absolute garbage
>inb4 mechanical keys
microswitches are the only other option I think, but some people hate clicky buttons
>it's le bad because IT'S LE BAD
I hate you castrated tertiary monkeys so god damn much
>drift is actually le good
>Hall Effect-like
So it's not a Hall Effect joystick? How does it work?
I have attached two rubber bands to the controller. A sensor detects the tension in the bands to figure out where the stick is. This works well for about 3 weeks before one of the bands snaps and the consumer will be forced to get another one.
Most probably same tech but with some inhouse bullshit to avoid paying licenses
aren't hall effect sensors ancient tech. i doubt anyone has a valid patent for it.
Yes, because Hall Effect joysticks are already patented.
So Nintendo has to go for something similar.
it's not a hall effect joystick. the patent still mentions variable resistors to measure user input. this patent is for a type haptic feedback joystick that can become more or less stiff based based on signals from the game. it becomes more stiff by applying a magnetic field to an MR fluid. people are confused because they read the word magnetic field and immediately assume hall effect.
My joycons have some very minor drift, that isn't even noticeable most of the time. My pro controller, however, developed much more serious drift.
We're in the "misinformation and retardedly high expectations" phase. It'll all come crashing down once the actual specs on this thing are revealed.
>misinformation
It's a patent, this is public information.
this was a patent too
The right analog stick is pointless and better off replaced with a touchpad that won't drift anyway.
Allowing patents for anything but strictly mechanical and electrical machinery that can detail all of its functions was a mistake.
ninchuddronnies in this thread defending joy con drift even though supreme overlord binbontendo™ themselves are going to address the issue
How is the DualSense drift lawsuit going?
why should i care about it chud? i only own nintendo switch
fuck this
i shouldnt have created this thread
didnt even get to discuss anything without gay drones hijacking the thread and chimping out, pretending its a non issue even though its a good news for everyone
Reminder that Nintendo's patents that were made public before console's release were never used
That sounds like something you're not even sure is true, because there are so many patents out there that you can't corroborate it, and you think people are too lazy to prove you wrong.
Nintodlers are embarrasing
You're correct, but you're still an ESL.
You can't write it correctly, it triggers a filter for some reason, give it a shot
the chudjannie is a toddler ximself so i guess it makes sense
you are not white so you are even worse 🙂
>he doesn't know
>hating bintendo™ is the cool thing to do
kek
the grandeur delusions of ninchuddrones
true, you're not cool at all
Doesn't some Chinese company have the patent for hall effect joysticks.
That's probably why they're doing this Hall effect-like thing instead of using that
>switch 2
Why don't they just make a new fucking console. This '2' reeks of pre cope. here's your ps5-2 bro
Maybe you're too retarded to realize this, but the console isn't literally called "Switch 2", in fact, the console doesn't even exist yet, we don't even have an official codename for it, people just call it switch 2 because it comes after the switch
fair
It's weird to me that hall-effect because a hip thing as soon as I started looking into magnetic switches a year ago.
>instead of just paying to use hall effect joysticks, they go and patent their own
Now any companies that want to use hall effect sticks has to skirt using similar designs or pay for the use of these. Can't wait for controllers to cost $100 for the same functionalities one had 2 decades ago.
test
>iyu mado dissu
god fuck nintendo
da shitch poo
>left joycon starts to drift
>fuck
>try to contact cleaner way to fix it
>works
>starts to drift when I use my switch again a long time later
>fox it again with contact cleaner
Glad that shit worked for me.