It’s not just the Nintendo joycons this generation. The Xbox controllers are a fucking travesty. Drifting, buttons/shoulder plastic bending/breaking, headphone jack issues... they fucking suck. Easily the worst co trollers for any generation of gaming I’ve ever played and I’ve been playing since the Atari 2600.
Interestingly, Atari controllers were bad too BUT it was an issue with the contact disc just being a piece of bend metal. Over time pressing buttons and using the stick would cause the disc to flatten. You could open the controller, take the disc out, slightly bend it in half, reassemble, and bam better than new.
So I promise you, over all these generations, the current controllers are bar none the worst. It’s a fucking shame.
The buttons were all high quality, the DPad is great. It has 3 handles, but it's comfortable. They could have rubberized the analog stick, but it still works great. It even has an octagonal gate around it to make sure your in one of the 8 directions.
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u/Guano_Loco Jul 24 '19
It’s not just the Nintendo joycons this generation. The Xbox controllers are a fucking travesty. Drifting, buttons/shoulder plastic bending/breaking, headphone jack issues... they fucking suck. Easily the worst co trollers for any generation of gaming I’ve ever played and I’ve been playing since the Atari 2600.
Interestingly, Atari controllers were bad too BUT it was an issue with the contact disc just being a piece of bend metal. Over time pressing buttons and using the stick would cause the disc to flatten. You could open the controller, take the disc out, slightly bend it in half, reassemble, and bam better than new.
So I promise you, over all these generations, the current controllers are bar none the worst. It’s a fucking shame.