Topic: No hall effect analog sticks?

Well that worries me, not going to lie. I went through five joy-con sets in three years due to stick drift. My PS5 controller lasted nine months before it incurred drift. I suppose my only hope is for Hori to deliver a joy-con alternative.

Although they aren't immune to drift, the Hori Split Pad Pro I currently use have served me well for almost five years now.

I am now back on the "maybe I'll wait" train. Might as well add alternative joy-con to the hidden cost list along with Express cards and the inevitable NSO expansion pack cost increase (due to Gamecube inclusion). As I am the resident pessimist, I assume my Switch 2 will experience drift after 400 hours play. Until proven otherwise.

They've had years to figure out a solution for the next iteration of the Joy-Con so I have some faith that it should at the very least be less of an issue than it was on Switch. I don't think I've ever had drift on a Nintendo controller before the Switch so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a one-off and will be fixed. But either way I'm still buying the thing because I want to play the games, drift or no drift.

@Magician
Im not worried.

Nintendo lost a truckload of money fixing joycon for free. Trust me, they will have ensured the flaw present in the Switch joycon is eliminated. Obviously not all traditional analogs have the kind of drift issues joycon had. So simply not being HALL Effect means little. These are larger analog sticks and they explicitly stated they redesigned the joycon from the ground up with durability in mind. I mean, there you have it. They don't want drift anymore than we do.

Not to mention, a teardown from a leaker confirms technology similar to HALL Effect, which they mistook as such, but according to patents is a proprietary solution in a similar vein, but can't be called "HALL Effect". So that could also be the case. It's frictionless and magnetic but technically not HALL Effect.

Either way, the sticks are different and the joycon were redesigned around durability, and Nintendo will have bent over backwards ensuring these won't have similar issues.

So I don't have even the slightest concern.

Hopefully 3rd party hardware makers tear down the Joy-Cons 2 and make HallEffect stick to replace them. If Nintendo wants 3rd party hardware makers to make money well they gave them a headups to get ready to make replacement.

I think the lack of HALL might just be due to the existing magnets on the things. Would probably mess up the internals. Besides, HALL sticks aren't the only options for drift-free sticks.

Just not using the cheapest and flimsiest potentiometers that they can get their hands on should probably be enough of a fix.

So far as Hall Effect sensors go though, I've had a great experience with them on the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, and if they're cheap enough to go into a $200 device, I'd be hoping for something at least as good in a $450 one.

The way people have described using them suggested that they were much smoother in action. Some even claimed they were Hall Effect from the feel presumably because Hall Effect has just become shorthand for "high quality analogue sticks"

I'm not particularly worried. Honestly I haven't really had an issue with drift and I haven't had issues with analogue sticks before the Switch either. With the exception of the 3DS Circle pad which eventually lost some glue or something and started to slip. The JoyCon were not the best sticks but..... I don't think not being Hall Effect was the only issue nor do I think it's the only route to improving them significantly