▲ 348 ▼ Microsoft’s repairability push now extends to Xbox controllers, too (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by 2tone@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) My understanding is that no first party controller (Sony, MS, Sega or Nintendo) uses hall effects. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 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... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 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... permalink fedilink source parent