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Nintendo confirms: Switch 2 Joy-Cons won’t feature Hall Effect sticks | VGC
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I’m gonna buy it. I repaired electronics for a living, down to microsoldering level. The joycons were inherently flawed, and all will suffer drift eventually. That said, how quickly is entirely a factor of one’s usage and the amount of pressure you put on the joystick, and replacing them is about $10 and 3 minutes of time with a basic level of competency. I’ve had a launch switch since launch, and I’m still on my first joysticks. I have a set of spares for the eventual inevitability of failure, but I’m not too concerned about these new ones. Repair is part of the life cycle of a product, and as long as it’s cheap and quick, it doesn’t factor into my decision making process very much. I likely won’t buy it this year though, now is the time to stash money for the depression.
Begging the mods to ban you for posting this.
Also I swapped out my Switch joysticks with hall effect ones which wasn't that hard but having to do that at all is fucking stupid.
I mean, do you carry the same water for the Steam Deck, which also decided against Hall Effect sticks?
I will never own one so I guess so, although maybe theirs are built better or aren't soldered to the mobo (probably are).
Anything is built better than joy-cons. A metal rod rubbing on a piece of graphite is just such bad design, but I get why they did it, it lets them really slim down the sticks without over complicating it.
You can replace steam deck sticks without desoldering, though the capacitive touch function I think is a soldered wire if I remember correctly.
Ah, OK, thanks for explaining. Yeah that doesn't sound so bad. I'm so fucking annoyed repairing my gaming electronics and electronics in general so any design that limits me having to take stuff apart to clean it, replace capacitors, desolder CMOS batteries, replace parts, etc. is what I want in life.