“Well, the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up,” said Nate Bihldorff, senior vice president of product development and publishing. “They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good.”
To the 3-5 pain piggies somehow lurking this site still: Do. not. buy.
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.