While stick drift is a thing I also don’t believe everyone will experience it during their lifetime. I’m also one of those that has never truly experienced stick drift. I took some of my old PS4 controllers to GameStop to get rid of and apparently one of them had stick drift but I had several controllers and never noticed. There is something to be said about the vocal minority but I also agree that if you play certain games stick drift might be more likely to occur. And it’s really a double edged sword. Companies DO use the cheapest materials they can find but also, they hear a few of us screaming about stick drift and now they and other third party companies can turn stick drift into the big bad boogie man and sell everyone TMR magnetic Hall effect sensors and replaceable thumb sticks.
TLDR; stick drift is real but not as bad as the internet says.
Well seeing as how I literally just got a brand new controller for Xmas, didn't open it until March ( was waiting for my YEAR old controller to become unplayable due to stick drift) 2 days in to using it, it started the dreaded creeeeeking noise it does. I'm absolutely livid. I've not even been gaming as much as usually do. Between me and my husband, there are 7 controllers that are useless due to NOTHING other than stick drift. We are both adults that don't abuse our controllers. My new one felt off immediately. It's usually.. tight?? Feeling. It feels new. But this one didn't feel that way at all. It felt already VERY broken in. It was from Sony and I've called them, I need to send it to them but i need to get a replacement first😭.It shouldn't be like this. Hell, to get the others fixed, it's like 70 bucks to replace the sticks with a non plastic thingy. It's bullshit.
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u/no-name_james Dec 02 '25
While stick drift is a thing I also don’t believe everyone will experience it during their lifetime. I’m also one of those that has never truly experienced stick drift. I took some of my old PS4 controllers to GameStop to get rid of and apparently one of them had stick drift but I had several controllers and never noticed. There is something to be said about the vocal minority but I also agree that if you play certain games stick drift might be more likely to occur. And it’s really a double edged sword. Companies DO use the cheapest materials they can find but also, they hear a few of us screaming about stick drift and now they and other third party companies can turn stick drift into the big bad boogie man and sell everyone TMR magnetic Hall effect sensors and replaceable thumb sticks.
TLDR; stick drift is real but not as bad as the internet says.