One of the more prominent leakers of Nintendo Switch 2 information was NextHandheld who has recently doubled down on the newly announced platform’s Joy-Con controller having Hall Effect joysticks. NextHandheld says that this is evident in a system teardown. One of the biggest issues with the original Joy-Con controllers was the prominence of stick drift, which Nintendo was forced to admit is an issue with the system. Nintendo has yet to specify whether the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons feature Hall Effect joysticks, but when we eventually hear, we will let you know. If you are curious about Hall Effect joysticks then there’s a good explanation about them on Windows Central, which you can read below.
Thanks for the link! Very interesting!
tl;dr sticks often use “potentiometers” to track position. They involve electrical contacts that wear out as the stick is moved around. Once they wear out enough, the stick will produce erroneous signals and needs to be replaced. Hall Effect sticks use magnets and track position by measuring changes in the magnetic field. There is no physical contact so the sticks last much longer.
Finally something explaining wtf this drift thing people keep crying about and what is the hall stuff.
After replacing my original joy con sticks about 5 times, I got hall effect replacements and so far have had zero issues. So I really hope this leak turns out to be true!
Hall analog sticks aren’t immune to drift. I replaced the ones in my joycons and a couple years later began to see it again in one of them.
Instead of replacing them again, I ended up buying the Hori Split Pad Pro for handheld use, which makes traveling a bit more clunky but has so far been fine.
If that’s true, I wonder how well they are able to deal with the interference caused by the magnet that holds the controllers in place. Even with calibration I think it would cause problems with sensitivity.
Why do you think so? It is a static magnetic field that is only “visible” to the sensor during storage?
Looks like this links back to a reddit thread with a bunch of leak info:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/comments/1i31e7k/comment/m7p9qfn/
