It won’t be because the manufacturers purposely put wiper-based potentiometers in these controllers because the controllers breaking and suffering stick drift is a revenue source. They don’t WANT to produce a controller that will last forever, because then they can’t keep selling controllers non-stop.
Yeah it’s crappy design. I’ve swapped a copper part worth less than a penny 3 times on a pair of ps5 controllers. I bought a bag of replacement potentiometers but only ever needed to swap one piece in the assembly. Crappy design for a $60 piece of equipment that should last as long as the console.
Same with mice, Logitech uses a combination of under-designed (denounce and chatter can be fixed by using both the NO and NC terminals to perform latching in firmware) circuitry, out-of-spec voltages, and cheap wrongly spec’d microswitches, which results in their mice suffering from double click and other similar issues after a year or so of usage.
You can put switches that are closer to spec and will last many more years, but really they should be using 5V and both momentary terminals.
It won’t be because the manufacturers purposely put wiper-based potentiometers in these controllers because the controllers breaking and suffering stick drift is a revenue source. They don’t WANT to produce a controller that will last forever, because then they can’t keep selling controllers non-stop.
Yeah it’s crappy design. I’ve swapped a copper part worth less than a penny 3 times on a pair of ps5 controllers. I bought a bag of replacement potentiometers but only ever needed to swap one piece in the assembly. Crappy design for a $60 piece of equipment that should last as long as the console.
Same with mice, Logitech uses a combination of under-designed (denounce and chatter can be fixed by using both the NO and NC terminals to perform latching in firmware) circuitry, out-of-spec voltages, and cheap wrongly spec’d microswitches, which results in their mice suffering from double click and other similar issues after a year or so of usage.
You can put switches that are closer to spec and will last many more years, but really they should be using 5V and both momentary terminals.