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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure they are good (they don't drift), but we've all grown up with "regular" joysticks and they were fine. Now all of a sudden, hall effects is the latest gaming buzzword that all gamers apparently need to get. Not saying that hall effects don't have positives, but I do find it funny that all of a sudden its a big deal in the industry.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hall effect has been the norm in all but the cheapest sim gear (sticks, throttles, etc) for a very long time now.

    Hall effect gimbals on radio control/drone controllers have been pretty common for some time, too.

    It's mostly that this is a solved problem that more general purpose controllers are just now catching up to after the problem's been exacerbated by the smaller gimbals used in modern controllers.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    My understanding is that no first party controller (Sony, MS, Sega or Nintendo) uses hall effects.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    AFAIK Sega did it twice on the Saturn and the Dreamcast controllers.. I think the problem grew over the time... Companies try to cheap out on parts as much as possible, try to limit the lifetime of said parts to about 2 years so people will have to buy new controllers...

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