▲ 170 ▼ Nintendo has filed a patent for ‘smart fluid’ joysticks, perhaps to eliminate drift | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) submitted 2 years ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world [M] to c/nintendo@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments Let's hope this isn't just a random patent, and we actually get better sticks next generation.
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you not seen Guili kits replacements for the switch joycons? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've seen them, they are an order of magnitude more expensive than the potentiometer based ones. Good for enthusiast hobbyist upgrades, but I doubt Nintendo is going to go for that considering the pricetag of the Hall Effect sticks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago That's just because there is only one company making them so... yeah we got expensive joystick replacements. If Nintendo just paid a bit more and went with the HE joysticks in the first place they wouldn't be in this situation. Why do you think they're patenting these joysticks with magnetic fluid in em? They don't want this to happen again so they do what the Japanese do best, over engineer a simple solution. I'm just gonna sit back and eat some popcorn permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've seen them, they are an order of magnitude more expensive than the potentiometer based ones. Good for enthusiast hobbyist upgrades, but I doubt Nintendo is going to go for that considering the pricetag of the Hall Effect sticks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago That's just because there is only one company making them so... yeah we got expensive joystick replacements. If Nintendo just paid a bit more and went with the HE joysticks in the first place they wouldn't be in this situation. Why do you think they're patenting these joysticks with magnetic fluid in em? They don't want this to happen again so they do what the Japanese do best, over engineer a simple solution. I'm just gonna sit back and eat some popcorn permalink fedilink source parent
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago That's just because there is only one company making them so... yeah we got expensive joystick replacements. If Nintendo just paid a bit more and went with the HE joysticks in the first place they wouldn't be in this situation. Why do you think they're patenting these joysticks with magnetic fluid in em? They don't want this to happen again so they do what the Japanese do best, over engineer a simple solution. I'm just gonna sit back and eat some popcorn permalink fedilink source parent