Ars Technica

Switch 2 joysticks won’t use Hall effect sensors to avoid stick drift

It's all about the relative failure rate. My understanding is that drift can and does happen on pretty much any non-Hall joystick, but that the Switch Joy-Cons were ...
The Verge

Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After improving hard drives, tunneling magnetoresistance technology could put an end to joystick drift. After ...
Ars Technica

Switch 2 joysticks won’t use Hall effect sensors to avoid stick drift

I’m admittedly not huge Switch fan, but my kids are - we have 1 original and 2 lites in our household. But as more details arise, the Switch 2 is less and less compelling. Let’s call it $500 (trariff ...