The only time something has busted for me is the 'thumb pad' on the N64 analog breaking off, but it still works fine. It's just that there's a little stub where you would put your thumb. That and a worn out R button for my ol' DSi. Probably because of too much drifting in Mario Kart DS.
Anyways no offense but it sounds like you either have bad luck or are handling your controllers way harder than you need to.
The only problems that I've ever had with controllers, were loose joysticks, and gimped shoulder buttons.
The N64 was obviously the most prone to loose joysticks, but it eventually happened to some of my GCN controllers, too.
GameCube controllers' shoulder buttons always ended up being off, because of the analog. When I would press the analog trigger all the way down, the little click would always be lopsided, so sometimes pushing the button down, didn't work, because it couldn't register a full click. This happened to almost all of my Wavebirds. This is why I think Nintendo got rid of analog triggers. Xbox 360 controllers don't have that click, when it's pressed down all the way. That's the best way I can describe it. In conclusion, I'm glad that Nintendo ditched analog. The way they wanted it, arguably didn't work that well on GCN.
Other than that, the R button on my DS Lite stopped working, and I had to replace it via warranty.
EDIT: Also, I'm very careful with my stuff. The analog shoulder buttons on GCN, still ended up being off the click. It's usually the analog inputs that get messed up, from my experience.
The only time something has busted for me is the 'thumb pad' on the N64 analog breaking off, but it still works fine. It's just that there's a little stub where you would put your thumb. That and a worn out R button for my ol' DSi. Probably because of too much drifting in Mario Kart DS.
Anyways no offense but it sounds like you either have bad luck or are handling your controllers way harder than you need to.
To be fair, the only Nintendo handhelds where I haven't had problems with the shoulder buttons (yet) are the 2/3DS ones. And I don't really use them at all, outside of using L as the A button in Pokemon.
N64 analog sticks really were very easy to break though.
Well the only time I had an analog stick break on me was a PS2 Dualshock one and that was because I stepped on it in the middle of the night, because my brother just put the controller down on the floor when he was done with it, Other then that the only damage I had to an analog stick was the rubber around one of my Wavebird controllers is off because one of my cats chewed it off.
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I've had the analog sticks on most of my gamecube controllers go loose. You can refurbish them, actually, if you buy a new stick. It's a bit cheaper than buying a whole new controller.
The d pads on all my NES controllers were really broken though. Not working broken. I don't see the old nes pads as a shining example of durable controllers.
My sister destroyed the analogue stick on my Dualshock II by chewing on it, but otherwise my sticks have only broken from poor build quality (3rd Party crap controllers).
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MY FAVORITE CONTROLLER OF ALL TIME IS THE WIIMOTE. WHY? BECAUSE IT IS MADE OF NINTENDIUM.
The original Playstation controller, WITHOUT the dual analog crap, is a close second. Maybe I don't need analog sticks because I had to play and beat Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 with just a d pad. Then Super Mario 64 on the DS...
Edit #who knows: whoops sorry I kept editing. Fixed it so your quote doesn't look wrong.
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I still wonder what they did in old controllers to make them so hard to break the buttons(the analog sticks were worse so only the buttons count)
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The D-pad and 4 face buttons feel more tacticle, responsive and clicky than those on the SNES, but it's those pesky GCN-inspired L & R Buttons that just get me.
I actually love the Classic Controller's shoulder buttons. They're nice and big and those analog inputs (although, as stated in previous threads, I don't care whether they're analog or digital) could prove useful to GCN VC if it ever comes on the Wii U.
Wii U Pro Controller > Wii U GamePad > Wii Classic Controller > Wii Remote Plus (with or without Nunchuck) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DualShock 3
I own a PS1, GBA, GBA SP, Wii (GCN), 360, 3DS, PC (Laptop), Wii U, and PS4.
I used to own a GBC, PS2, and DS Lite
then my 3DS passed with buttons untested by accident, because the other day I played my cousin's 3DS(that he got used and it's older than mine) to help him in a game and all my 3DS' buttons feel squishy compared to his(except the R button that was replaced in the repair)
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