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.
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.
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: $$$
Isn’t the N64 controllers using optical sensor and those are one of the worst controller ever existed?
N64’s issues came from the bushings wearing out, the sensors were still very good