Comment on Microsoft’s repairability push now extends to Xbox controllers, too
commandar@kbin.social 1 year agoHall effect has been the norm in all but the cheapest sim gear (sticks, throttles, etc) for a very long time now.
Hall effect gimbals on radio control/drone controllers have been pretty common for some time, too.
It's mostly that this is a solved problem that more general purpose controllers are just now catching up to after the problem's been exacerbated by the smaller gimbals used in modern controllers.
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My understanding is that no first party controller (Sony, MS, Sega or Nintendo) uses hall effects.
Tolstoy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AFAIK Sega did it twice on the Saturn and the Dreamcast controllers… I think the problem grew over the time… Companies try to cheap out on parts as much as possible, try to limit the lifetime of said parts to about 2 years so people will have to buy new controllers…