• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure they are good (they don’t drift), but we’ve all grown up with “regular” joysticks and they were fine. Now all of a sudden, hall effects is the latest gaming buzzword that all gamers apparently need to get. Not saying that hall effects don’t have positives, but I do find it funny that all of a sudden its a big deal in the industry.

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        Hall effect has been the norm in all but the cheapest sim gear (sticks, throttles, etc) for a very long time now.

        Hall effect gimbals on radio control/drone controllers have been pretty common for some time, too.

        It’s mostly that this is a solved problem that more general purpose controllers are just now catching up to after the problem’s been exacerbated by the smaller gimbals used in modern controllers.

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          1 year ago

          My understanding is that no first party controller (Sony, MS, Sega or Nintendo) uses hall effects.

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            1 year ago

            AFAIK Sega did it twice on the Saturn and the Dreamcast controllers… I think the problem grew over the time… Companies try to cheap out on parts as much as possible, try to limit the lifetime of said parts to about 2 years so people will have to buy new controllers…

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        Controllers with quality sensors and switches have been available for a long time it is simply that consumer knowledge on the topic has improved.

        My 14 year old CH products joystick is a great example.

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      1 year ago

      “GameSir G7 SE” is pretty new on the market. The SE version has hall effect joysticks but lacks the mechanical buttons from the previous G7 model. Both of them are wired. Looked up reviews of them and they seem to be pretty solid for this price range. Can’t tell anything about quality myself since mine hasn’t arrived yet. When ordering, put it in your cart and fill out your adress and email but dont pay/checkout. After some time you will get an email with 10% off, later another one with 15^^