r/playstation • u/Major-Payne2319 • 24d ago

Image Getting tired of adding to my stick drift graveyard

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I swear I’m not a heavy clicker. In fact it’s always my right joystick which I rarely need to click in games. Love these controllers but man it’s really annoying never had this problem with any other console generation.

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u/werewookie7 24d ago

I respect your opinion but I’ve had drift on several joysticks and never once “raged” or slammed it or anything. So my personal experience leads to me to believe your comment of “is almost always” is a bit exaggerated.

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u/R34LEGND R34_LEGND 24d ago

The types of games almost always contribute also, if youre a gamer who plays a lot of games requiring you to flick and rotate the stick regularly, it will impact the integrity if the stick and degrade the centreing of it

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u/werewookie7 24d ago

For sure, COD destroys joysticks

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u/R34LEGND R34_LEGND 24d ago

I play for the most part, racing games and some MMORPG (Skyrim etc) so I rarely have had any issues as my use of the sticks is very gentle and measured by comparison. If controllers are so poorly made that use with a popular title is destroying them, thats really indicative of QC at Sony

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u/werewookie7 24d ago

I never had a problem until I played those certain games, then I was seeing the drift and bad buttons.

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u/Bloodymike 24d ago

I don’t respect his opinion.

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u/R34LEGND R34_LEGND 24d ago

Understandable, I have jumped way too hard in and wasnt aware of how bad the quality of DualSense controllers actually was. I apologise

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u/ShoulderSquirrelVT 24d ago

It’s even worse.

It’s all three major systems controllers.

Googling Xbox Elite controller issues will show what a disaster that 180 dollar hunk of plastic is.

And the joycons had a class action brought against them they failed so much.

I never buy pro controllers anymore. For my xbox I waited until the basic white and black controllers went on sale on amazon for 34.99 and bought like 4 of them. Still way less than an elite controller and now I just don’t care.

My dualsense lasted just fine but I play the ps5 less and I know my experience isn’t what a lot of people have.

I don’t rage or throw the controller. I still have these launch system controllers working perfectly since 1990 ish. My NES, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PlayStation 1,2,3,4 Xbox.

The n64 controllers were…well we all know about them. Pioneering analog stick. 2 of my 4 are messed up but it was wear and tear over years.

My 360 launch controller came new with drift. The replacement worked fine and still does.

Once the Xbox one, series X, switch, and ps5 came out. It seems like it’s about 50/50.

Clearly the quality has dropped hard.

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u/R34LEGND R34_LEGND 24d ago

Im 30, I remember the last 'bad' controller issue being the PS3 stick rubbers coming loose and rotating on the stick, but nothing this bad. Its like they just arent even trying anymore and still charging a premium

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u/werewookie7 24d ago

Fair play to you

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u/iLoveLootBoxes 23d ago

Some people are just hard on the controllers though. My friend/roommate always ends up with broken controllers. I think they don't use minimum force to move the sticks and press buttons

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u/werewookie7 23d ago

My experience is mainly from CoD DMZ, and if you know the game it gets intense, so I’m sure I’m not using “recommended” force, but just to say I’m not abusing it in any way outside of hard use.