A patent filed by Nintendo suggests that they’re working on Hall Effect style joysticks for the Switch 2 that would eliminate stick drift almost entirely.

  • @lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 year ago

    does the switch pro controller use different joysticks than the joycons?

    my joycons have drift but the pro controller, which I’ve used more often, is perfectly fine

    • @Vash63@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      No, it’s just vastly larger so the copper contact strips are also larger and wear slower.

    • @chris@l.roofo.cc
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      1 year ago

      The technology is fundamentally the same but they are implemented differently. They joycon has less space so they needed a more compact layout. But both use potentiometers.

    • Pablo
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      31 year ago

      I bought a pro controller and it had drift out of the box, sent it back immediately and just got a third party Hori controller for half the price