It's unacceptable that in year 2025 companies are refusing to make controllers with hall effect sensors. At this point I can't think of it as anything other than planned obsolesence in order to sell replacement Joy-cons.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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From my understanding, hall effect sticks won't work in switch 2 joycons, due to magnetic interference from the attachment mechanism. Instead, they would need something else - I hear TMR would be resistant to the magnetic interference.
Is that actually true, or just internet speculation? I remember reading counter points that other devices with magnets used Hall effect sticks without issues.
The thing is, even the new Pro controller uses potentiometers for the sticks, so I doubt magnetic interference to Hall effect sticks was even a consideration in the Nintendo engineers minds. They were going full potentiometer from day 1.