New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift - Dexerto
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A patent from Nintendo suggests that they're working on a magnetic joystick system, aka hall effect joysticks, which would solve stick drift.

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.

  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    does the switch pro controller use different joysticks than the joycons?

    my joycons have drift but the pro controller, which I’ve used more often, is perfectly fine

    • Vash63@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      No, it’s just vastly larger so the copper contact strips are also larger and wear slower.

    • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The technology is fundamentally the same but they are implemented differently. They joycon has less space so they needed a more compact layout. But both use potentiometers.

    • Pablo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I bought a pro controller and it had drift out of the box, sent it back immediately and just got a third party Hori controller for half the price