Valve employees have said in interviews that they didn’t want the battery glued down, but that with the battery expanding and shrinking during use they couldn’t keep it from rattling around unless they glued it down. Other companies have managed this, so it’s not an impossible issue. However it wasn’t something valve was able to easily solve.
As far as hall effect joysticks go, I’m not going to complain when none of the modern first party console controllers come with hall-effect. Microsoft and Sony have pro controllers for $150-200 that don’t come with hall effect sensors. Valve making the thumbsticks easily replaceable is enough imo. Things could be much worse, the Asus Ally uses the same type of thumbsticks as Nintendo Joycons for example.
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I will, when there are cheap third party controllers that have hall effect, and some random company managed to make them for the Steam Deck itself.
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's a massive difference between being able to get the quantity to serve the small number of people willing to tinker and buy niche controllers and being able to get the quantity to serve a mass market.
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's not cheaper if the manufacturing capacity literally doesn't exist. You can't just wave a magic wand and have a company be capable of making millions of units.
klay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude, no need to be a dick about it. You made your point, the dunk undermines it.