Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting
Lesrid@lemm.ee 10 hours agoNintendo doesn’t want to use Hall for the same reason neither of the Steam Decks have, the increased power consumption. From there it was easy for them to justify a magnetic locking mechanism for the new joycons.
But also fuck Nintendo
CitricBase@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Hi, are you able to share more about the power efficiencies of each type of sensor? Some cursory browsing of TI datasheets gives me the impression that both types use a similar amount of power. I may be missing some context, though.
I did also find this cool report there. Could be pertinent, although from what I understand of the technology I don’t see why you couldn’t use the same techniques to save power with a digipot.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
HE uses like 25% more power compared to the usual sensor. Meaning a huge decrease of about 2% in joycons battery life.