“Are there any Anti-Drift measures that were designed into the controller, or will stick drift forever be an issue? P.S. I know you can fix it, I just want to know if there's been any work put in to reduce or completely eliminate the likelihood of drift.”
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There seems to be some reason to believe that analog stick drift will reoccur with the PS5 DualSense controllers. In this teardown video the speaker mentions that the analog stick units used in the DualSense look to be the exact same units used in the Dualshock 4's. He starts talking about the analog stick units at around 3 min into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rNITneXnCo But I gotta say I am in no way down on the DualSense -- it's the most amazing controller I've ever used and continue to be blown away by it. Knowing there might be drift issues with the Dualsense has me searching for "playstation stick drift prevention", so a prevention method instead of a fix because as we know by now, there really isn't a permanent fix for the issue if you want to repair instead of replace. One plus side about the DualSense design in terms of repairs is the components are very modular so replacement service might be less complicated than the Dualshock.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.PlayStation controllers I have owned in the past (official ones from ps2, ps3 and ps4) have NEVER had analog stick drift. I have had a few Xbox controllers, and every single one of those had annoying issues with the analog sticks drifting when you let go. I will be getting a DS5 for my pc for sure, SPECIFICALLY because of that zero analog drift, and that excellent directional pad design, as well as that usb type c charge port.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This information isn't known yet. And the other guy who answered this is being ridiculously biased. I have never had the problems he has with any Xbox controller so that's just going to have to be user error. As long as you take care of your stuff, this shouldn't happen to any controller regardless of the manufacturer. And no one single manufacturer is more prone to this problem than another.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I would say your best options to prevent analog drift are to use the analog buttons as minimal as possible and to keep your controllers in an area that isn’t dusty or that doesn’t attract a lot of dust. Most analog drift is caused by dust getting in the gaps where your analog stick is, which you can fix very easy by dipping a cotton swab in rubbing alcohol and cleaning the area or putting your mouth over the analog stick area and blowing on it really hard (it surprisingly works but cleaning it with alcohol works better imo). If you clean it and it still has analog drift it’s probably an issue with the controller itself, there are guides on YouTube that show how to repair them but if I were you I’d just trade the controller into GameStop, get credit for it, then buy a new one. However it’s pretty hard to break an analog stick so as long as you don’t throw your controller around or drop it a lot it’ll be fine and you can just clean the dust out when analog drift happens. As far as the other “answers” go both Xbox and PlayStation controllers get drift from dust alone. I find that it’s less of a problem for Xbox controllers but Xbox controllers break easily where as you’d have to throw a PlayStation controller extremely hard or repeatedly for it to break.
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