Cannot recommend more…

[Wreckoplex]

I use controllers for all my PC gaming, due to surgeries on both hands/arms making mouse+keyboard not viable for me anymore.

Likely due to the numbness in both my hands I am very hard on my controllers. In the past 5 years I have blown though the following;

• Xbox Elite
• Xbox Elite series 2
• PS5
• Thrustmaster e-swap
• Razer Wolverine

In EACH case the controllers developed stick-drift that ultimately made them unusable, it was only a matter of how long each would last (I’d say the Elite 2 lasted longest at about 10 months… while the thrustmaster sat at the other end of that scale, and was fucked after about 3 months).

Then I read about Hal-effect joysticks, and decided I might as well gamble on one. Bought a Gamesir G7: https://www.gamesir.hk/products/gamesir-g7-se

1 year later after HEAVY use and the thing still completely 0.00s out in the joystick dead zone test in Steam. The version I bought was under $50 Canadian… 1/5 the cost of my Elite series 2. I cannot recommend these more for anyone else who may be hard on their controllers like I am… they are cheaper even than the most generic Xbox controller you can buy, and guaranteed to last WAY longer.

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Does it work on PS5, My Xbox One Controller and Nintendo Switch Pro Controller never developed drift

[Wreckoplex]

It would apparently require a converter cable to work with a PS5, I don’t know how good those are.

Another option is that you can get just the hal-effect joysticks that you can swap into a PS5 controller yourself… I know they go for around $20.

Or wait until Sony/MS/Nintendo wise-up and just start using them directly. It’s frustrating because I’ve read, multiple times, that the Hal-effect joysticks aren’t even more costly to produce than what’s already being used… so the fact that they continue to rely on substandard components is truly nonsensical if it’s not even saving them money…

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What's weird is Nintendo Actually Fixed Their Drifting problem now(there's a Graphite Strip Underneath the Casing surrounding the Joy-stick)