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.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Nintendo are cheap bastards, and if they fix the drift issue then they’ll likely cause it to fail prematurely somewhere else. Maybe the rubber will be cheaper so that it wears down and has to be replaced anyways? Or the plastic will be thinner so it cracks sooner, etc.
Paradox@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Joycon drift, and all other thumbstick drift, is already a solved problem.
The reason why they haven’t done this is one very simple reason: $$$
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Isn’t the N64 controllers using optical sensor and those are one of the worst controller ever existed?
CanofBeanz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
N64 does use optical sensors, the n64 stick is actually super precise and doesn’t suffer from drift. The n64 is a goofy controller but it is simply a great and accurate input device, and a lot of the games were really designed with that stick and notches in mind.
But it is made of all plastic and features plastic on plastic moving parts, without lubrication, so it suffers from wear of the plastic. Worn n64 sticks will actually be filled with plastic dust from the stick and gears literally sanding themselves down. The only problem with the controller is the premature wear of the stick.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The sensors on the N64 are basically the same kind you’d find in a mouse wheel. They work fine.
The crap part is the physical construction. There’s a lot of parts that wear down with use and cause the joystick to become loose due to the plastics wearing away.
Paradox@lemdro.id 1 year ago
N64’s issues came from the bushings wearing out, the sensors were still very good
Sniper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the reason the n64 sticks suck is down to the stick tension construction and not really the sensing mechanism. Pretty much the thumbstick was pressed against a plastic bowl that wore away eventually through use. it didn’t really have anything to do with the fact that it was an optical stick