alien011

Seems that mail to Germany is even slower than mail to Australia. Somebody from a forum I am on just got one of these too, the text was translated into German ("Sie kommen"), and it was seemingly a 0800-phone number on it (a number you can call free of charge here). The number seems to be discontinued, though, I got an error when trying to call it.

@JoeyTS The reason why the joycons are more prone to drifting than other controllers is actually relatively easy. The PS4 and the Xbox controllers both use two potentiometers to have a two-axis-system (pretty much like the N64) and both of these potentiometers are pretty much encapsuled. The Joycon only uses one potentiometer, which isn't encapsuled at all. That means that a lot of grime from your fingers, dust, sweat and so on gets in there and ends up on the potentiometer. If you get too much dirt in it you'll have a permanent contact between the two parts of the potentiometer, resulting in Joycon drift. My guess why Nintendo used this system: Space. A controll stick with two potentiometers needs more space and the Joycons are already pretty full, with a lot of stuff cramped in.

Behind the L- and R- trigger buttons there is a silicone button. On the PS3 and before these silicone buttons were filled, on the PS4 Sony decided to save some millicents (or microcents or whatever) and removed some silicone from inside the button, so that PS4 controllers have a small ring of silicone over the contact. I hope you understand what I mean from the description. The trigger button itself is shaped like a triangle, with only a very thin part pressing into the silicone, which then presses down the contact. If you play a lot of racing games, for example, where you have to press one of the trigger buttons quite a lot, you get a permanent crease in the silicone from the constant pressure. If this crease is deep enough, the silicone won't press down the contact anymore, which means the trigger stops working. You get (or used to get) quite a lot of PS4 controllers with defective L- or R- trigger, and that's generally because of this. Fixing it is quite easy, you go to the hardware store and buy some silicone normally used when setting up your bathroom and then fill up the hollow part of the silicone button with it.

@Casual_Gamer95 Sony controllers have their own problems. The L- and R- triggers wear out way to easily (also a pretty easy fix, I normally use silicone from a hardware store for that), the rubbers on the sticks themselves wear off way too easily and the potentiometers are pretty bad. I do like Xbox One controllers, because they don't have an internal battery, but the potentiometers aren't too good either.

@SwitchForce TronixFix. And my own joycon. It's the way those things were constructed, the contacts get dirty way too easy. You can fix joy con drift by taking apart the joy con and then the stick itself and clean the contacts with rubbing alcohol, but that doesn't neccessarily fix the problem (and you might break the stick's housing).

@LEGEND_MARIOID The 1st gen PS4 controllers also broke fast, the L- and R-trigger buttons and the joysticks were the main issues.

@LEGEND_MARIOID So, you never bought a new PS3 or PS4? It is kind of sad that Nintendo's quality control is getting as bad as Sony's has been for years (or decades), but they're seemingly almost at the same level by now.