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Among the many updates appearing from Nintendo Switch 2, in this larger screen and stronger equipment, there is one improvement, which, hopefully, you will never notice: modern joysticks in the case of hall packed in every Joy-Con. The SWITCH 2 joystick technology will take care of a grave and path of design with an original switch, which many owners have experienced in the form of “Drift Stick”.
Drift Stick made Joy-Con the unbelievable. Over time, switch owners would start experiencing non-reacting or misleading joystick movements, and ultimately Joy-Cons would have to be repaired or replaced. Drift Stick was such a huge problem for the original switch that he led Nintendo many times, and President Nintendo apologized for the flaws. Nintendo has finished repairing the joy affected by a drift for free.
Switch 2, I hope he won’t have the same problem. The system will apparently operate sticks with the effects of hall, technology rarely used in the controllers of the first leading game console-mainly because the alternative is so inexpensive. Over time, not only sticks with a hall effect can provide more precise input data.
In addition, “if there are pollution or there is any humidity – anything that weakens this material – it accelerates deterioration and this causes a drum drip, because after changing the material properties, the tension that it sends to the controller also changes,” Mokhtari said Polygon. This voltage change causes an abnormal reading of the controller.
The controllers of the switch were particularly susceptible to the drift, because debris could easily get to the controllers, consuming a gaunt layer aimed at protecting the contact material.
Hall’s effects relate to the drift problem, removing the wiper from the equation; There is no physical, mechanical contact that could degrade. In the indoor effects sticks, the wiper is replaced by a magnet, and the resistance contact bar is replaced by a flat guide, called the Hall element, which is sensitive to magnetic fields. The sensor reads the impact of these magnetic fields on the cable and translates them into game movements, without contact.
Mokhtari said that Hall’s effects sensors can still experience a drift, but are much more resistant to a problem than controllers based on a potentiometer due to their contact character. Mokhtari added that Hallla’s effects sensors can also be susceptible to magnetic interference, if they are not properly protected from magnets-who, by the way, apparently switch 2 joys.
So if the sticks with the effects of Hall seem better than their peers powered by a potentiometer, why do all controllers operate them? Mokhtari said that some of them boil down to price, because potentiometers are produced on a scale that makes them more profitable to operate. Potentiometers are a proven, inexpensive option. In addition, if your controller fails, as ultimately with operate, a company such as Nintendo or PlayStation would certainly be joyful to sell a modern one at a full retail price.
But with Joy-Con Drift is an albatro around the neck of a very successful switch-i nintendo cost of repairing Joy-Cons with a stick-drift-nintendo seems to be ready to go to a longer, slightly more steep Hall -Effect Stick Technology. Certainly in the coming years we will postpone these modern indoor effects when you enter the next Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros., seeing how strong technology on a mass market scale is.
