Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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Wouldn't they cost more? I mean, they have hall effect sticks and 2 touchpads.
The previous one also had two touch pads and even better stick hardware than hall effect sticks (TMR); still cost no more than its contemporaries.
Is Hall effect the good one or like the Nintendo Switch and PS5 that wear out and require replacement?
Hall effect sticks are better than the potentiometer type sticks used in the Joycons and DualSense. They don't make contact with anything so they don't shed material and wear out as easily. The reason the other controllers get drift is from shavings from the contact pads messing with the signal. You can clean it for a temporary fix, but eventually there won't even be a contact pad to provide a signal at all.
Thank you!
When I was a kid we had an N64 game called Ready to Rumble Boxing, and when you got knocked down you could only get up by moving the joystick form left to right really fast. We developed a technique to put our palms on it and smash the thing back and forth which resulted in a lot of dead N64 controllers.
Hopefully future children are saved from characters that only move at half speed and drive in random directions.
Previous what? I was under the impression TMR was new technology...
The previous Steam controller for it's one joystick.