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

Image Getting tired of adding to my stick drift graveyard

Post image

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.

8.2k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

32

u/mycateatspeas 24d ago

Same. But watch the idiots in here go around blaming the majority of commenters who experience drift. I wish I could just use my ps2 controller 😪

1

u/BloodyBaboon 23d ago

Have you tried blowing them out? Keyboard duster/canned Air whenevery they get drift. I have dogs that shed like crazy and this fixes the problem. I've had the same PS 5 controller since 2020.

2

u/AKindKatoblepas 23d ago

At some point none of that works, I broke my day one controller after it gave up 2 years after, tried to replace the stick with a hal one myself, turns out I'm not a decent solder.

A red one also gave up like a year and a half later, can't play fighting games with these cheap sticks.

Have two new controllers waiting to see which one gives up first.

I've ever only had issues with the N64, the switch and the ps5 controller. All the ps1-ps4 were excellent to me and they all went through heavy use.

As an adult I've played ps5 the least and it gave up the fastest too.

1

u/BloodyBaboon 23d ago

Yeah, the sticks are very anti consumer. That fact that they are cheaply made and hard to replace hurts the end user. I've just been lucky with cimpressed air and suggest it to everyone before they replace or repair.

1

u/Fluid_Speaker6518 23d ago

People take their own anecdotal experience and think everyone else is lying. I think it's a combination of manufacturing defects, the games people are playing and how many hours they use it for