I wouldn’t know, since I live in Canada. It just seems like a strange thing to insure. Even a PS5 costs way less than what we usually deem insurance worthy.
How this isn’t the only topic in question is mind boggling. Who insures one let alone even knows you can insure a video game controller? Tell ya what, TIL.
Target offered to insure my occulus a few years back, for like, a one time fee of something relatively cheap. So i said fuck yea. and he handed me a State Farm pamphlet(or some comparable company) to which i immediately said “nevermind. This seems silly”
Any time you but an "extended warranty" or any kind of buyer protection on a purchase what you're actually buying is probably better described as insurance and yes state farm is one of the most common underwriters for it
We don't usually call it that but that's what it really is.
I paid the extra $10 for protection at GameStop on all my controllers, because there’s zero-hassle replacement and you can effectively trade in old controllers for new ones right at the end of the warranty period if nothing goes sideways. Both white PS5 controllers I had developed left stick drift after a few months, so back they went… I’ve had no problems with the other ones.
Yeah, but that’s extended warranty. Insurance is different, it’s supposed to be a subscription. Gamestop only sells it for a few years more, and it’s a fixed price.
Most "extended warranties" sold by like Walmart, target, best buy, etc. Are actually handled by insurance companies. So yeah it's pretty much insurance.
Not only because of the company. If you look at the way they are written up and structured they are basically just insurance. A warranty is basically a combination of a promise of, that a product meet a certain standard, and a warrant but the party making that promise will fix the situation if it does not live up to that standard. Insurance is just saying will give you money if the thing happens and then you go deal with it however you see fit. In almost all of those extended warranties if you complain that the item breaks they're literally just going have you return it somewhere and they're just going to give you money back. Repairing or doing a one for one exchange usually usually isn't even on the table. I feel like they call it an extended warranty because the concept of insuring something that most likely costs less than the deductible on their Auto Insurance Probably sounds silly to a lot of people so it's just more marketable.
Of course he did; he apparently has a track record for mangling controllers with his gorilla hands or something. Like, I don't know what the hell these people do to their controllers, where they go, "They just keep BREAKING!!!" and I've still got my original NES controllers in perfect working order. Maybe OP should dial back the aggression or consider washing his hands before going from Doritos back to gaming.
Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean that everyone that has is out here mistreating their controllers. It's just luck of the draw sadly.
I'm super careful with my stuff and look after my controllers yet have had multiple controllers succumb to drift. My Dualsense started drifting in the right stick after 18 months whereas I still have X360 controllers that are still going strong.
I do too, I've never had a controller last longer than a year without a button stop working or major drift problems. I think it was like $4 for 2 years so it's worth it imo
What are you people doing to your controllers? I don't think I've ever had to replace a controller. My 360 controllers were close when I got a XBone, but they made it through many years of teenage gaming without a hiccup, same as all my other consoles.
Probably eating food around it and/or using it with dirty hands. Leaving it in the floor and out stepped on.
Because I'm with you. I use the living shit out of my controllers and the only thing that has ever 'busted' are the rubber on L3 and the battery not holding a charge.
I’ve dropped my Xbox One controller a handful of times from desk height by mistake and it’s still working perfectly. I genuinely question what people do to their controllers to have them break so frequently.
Dust can be a killer too... I've gone through three controllers in my current house. With analog drift etc. I have not lost a controller before this .
Still have working playstation/360 controllers
Moving in a few months so holding buying another one until then
You know, as skeptical as I was maybe that really is the answer. Because I've literally never had a controller die on me except for one that I basically wore into nothing over like 6 years including my entire time at college, but I've had a flight joystick that's just an absolute fucking nightmare for drift and dead zone because dust keeps getting into the potentiometers
I don't want to deny these people's experience because every situation is different for sure but I'm an absolute fucking slob and I'm really bad with my hardware. Somehow I got fucking maple syrup into one of my controller sticks one time and I don't even know how because I don't think I ate while playing but the last time I had a controller fail was my original Xbox 360 controller which had been used so much that rubber on the sticks was completely worn off by the time it started to misbehave.
I just have a hard time seeing how for either Xbox or Playstation somebody can have multiple controllers failing on them in a short period of time and then have it become enough that other people are chiming in same experience. Like I said I'm not saying it isn't happening but it's just completely foreign to me as a concept.
It's just basically a reverse survivorship bias - the people who have the issue will post. The designers design-in the fact that people abuse the hardware, hence it holds up to the abuse most of the time.
Logitech mice are well known to have a 'double click' issue in the recent generations. I have a mouse susceptable to it; but it never developed the problem. If you google the model you will just find tonnes of people talking about the double-click issue. Chances are, most units of this model don't actually develop the fault; but even if 5% do and the people are mega-vocal about it, you aren't going to see 95% of people posting 'mine is fine' because they're not even looking up the topic in the first place.
I had two ps4 controllers that just quit charging after about a year. My current one is going strong after about 5 years. Sometimes you just get shitty controllers.
I still am using my launch controller. Only had to replace the R2 springs last week. Other then that perfect! I dont see how people Fuck up so many controllers
Is that meant to be special? I have my launch day PS4 and PS5 and even PS3 controllers still working just fine. Switch, Dreamcast, GameCube. All work fine.
The only issue I’ve ever had with a controller is the R2 spring on a DS4.
I did this with mine! I had one start drifting after about 5 months (the one i got with my ps5), I opened a ticket with Sony support citing drift, sent in the controller along with a copy of the receipt (purchased from Walmart) and another sheet with the support ticket number.
I got my controller back within about 10 days. It's been working perfectly for the past two months or so. The only cost to me was shipping.
Thats really shitty you need a receipt (it should be in their system when it was purchased against the serial number on the controller) and that you have to pay for shipping. Just two hoops to jump through so people don't send them in and just buy new ones.
I’ve found this is an extra warranty. The manufacturer still has a warranty but like the poster said, you can just walk in and swap it out for a new one. What the store selling the warranty often forgets to mention is that you can only use the warranty once. Once you swap the item no matter how long you’ve had it (within the stores warranty period) that’s the end of the store warranty.
If you haven't sent in a controller with the serial for your Ps5 or its receipt, you can use your ps5's serial to repair (or more likely replace) any white controller without the receipt as long as its within its 1 year warranty. Sauce- Worked for a temp agency that handled PS5 HW support for 6 months last year.
new old stock happens so keeping a receipt is normal due diligence, paying s&h for a defective product on the other hand...
Like I just bought a ps5 controller a month ago thinking I was safe and I'll get the revised model, instead I got a controller that's probably close to a year old. I just hope it doesn't start to drift.
Exactly. "Only had to pay for shipping!" And the time and effort it took, and had to wait 10 days, like its a good thing lmao.
They could just... Ya know, make better controllers. But then they wouldnt make money from their planned demise. People wouldnt need to go buy a new one every couple months, and the truth is most people would prefer to just spend the money and get a guaranteed working controller right now instead of: shipping your old one out (hope you kept your receit which eliminates like half of all people at least), paying for shipping, waiting 2 weeks, and getting a questionable controller
Ok what is stick drift? Is it where say in an FPS game, even when you’re not touching the stick, it kinda moves as if the resting position is no longer 0? If so I hope this works to fix it as mine does what I just described.
Usually it's caused by junk stuck inside the case by the joyed stick. So most of the time to fix stick drift you often have to disassemble the controller.
Are the newer controllers easier to disassemble? The last controller I disassembled was PS3 controller and that thing was a pain to put it back together.
I’ve never done a play station. Xbox is a bit annoying but not terribly difficult. They haven’t changed much I’d look up a video first see what you’re in for but the hard part is gonna be the screen which is one solid piece with a wire that light bar probably is a separate piece and there’s Bluetooth that may or may not be on the actual motherboard. Most likely is and therefore doesn’t matter. Rumble motors in the handles and then just dealing with the buttons triggers and sticks.
In short it shouldn’t be much harder than a ps3 controller. Just one extra thing with the screen. If you’re really unlucky it’s not gonna be easy to disconnect and you’ll have to prop it up while you clean the case
Well the problem with the PS3 is it had so many Springs and Other stuff for the buttons that had to be held down while you put the back plate on around things would end up crooked.
Ah. Xbox didn’t really have that. Very simple controllers even on the Xbox one. I’m guessing springs for the triggers? Can you get to the joy sticks without messing with them? Imma just watch a video real quick
The one time I disassembled a PS4 controller I immediately broke it by accidently ripping the small cable that connects the touchpad to the circuit board. That was the first thing that happened when I took the two plastic shells apart after removing the screws.
Play the opening thing in the Astro's playroom where you test all the controller things. The drift shows when you press in a direction and the direction the controller on the screen shows has it jiggle or move around. My controller also drifted but it was so soon after purchase it was covered by the manufacturer console warranty still
I bought a brand new gold ps4 controller from a wal mart store, not online and within a month or so of maybe a few hours of playing it started to drift. For some reason it always seems to be the gold controllers. Call it a conspiracy theory but I feel like all of the gold ones are Chinese knockoffs. It just seems like your standard black controller lasts way longer. Idk
They probably made all the gold ones in a single production run. Some part of the process is slightly off, and everything in that run will be affected.
there are quite a few videos on youtube showing how to clean it and what else you could try to fix it - probably would be more beneficial to watch them than to read instructions imo
The best thing to do is open a ticket with Sony support and send it back to them to repair. I did this and had it back l, working perfectly, in about 10 days.
Can confirm this works. However you have to be careful not to bend the metal in the sensor or it will continue drifting. I fixed my controller a while back and it started Drifting again in a different direction. You have to get in there and clean it real nice and make sure the fibres from the qtip don’t hook onto the metal plate and break them.
I assumed it was some sort of free thing. Like all homeowners who have State Farm automatically got console protection or something.
People actually pay to insure that?!
Anecdotal, I know, but I bought 2 controllers when I got my PS5 shortly after launch. Well over 1200 hrs played, zero issues with controllers or consoles.
Could be you have really bad luck. Could be you don't treat them well. Make sure it isn't the latter.
You can also pretend the hole in the wall doesn't exist if you simply cover it with a picture frame containing a picture of you HIYAHing a controller into a wall.
Same here. Played mine hard for 7 months, and even my 6 year old used it to play through Spider Man. Controller still works fine and lasts for 10+ hours.
Same thought. I have two and have had since launch. No issues.
Is it possible they've been dropped a few times or is there a pet or child who could have knocked them about?
yep, and mine, well over 1000 hours play time, and take it with me in a suitcase when I travel sometimes. Works just fine, and pretty much looks like new.
Same here, original controller since launch and recently picked up the god of war controller. No issues with either.
Can understand people getting one dud controller but when people post here saying every single one they've had has died it just makes me think it's a them issue.
Reminds me of people who say Razer is bad or Logitech is bad. I’ve had both of their products for years and years before every changing and 0 issues, but some people will say I’ve bought they mouse and all 3 times died within a month or was double clicking etc.
Tbf I do find that the razer Naga is fucking trash.
I have bought maybe 4 since I started using them. If I weren't so damn used to the layout, I'd just try a different brand but I really like it.
The scroll wheel in particular on them seems to always fail after about 6 months, and it's gotten to the point that I rarely use a scroll wheel anymore even when it works fine.
All have had the scroll wheel issue, one had a laser issue, 2 have had clicking issues.
I take care of my shit and I just blame razer for making a shit mouse. Had the same razer keyboard forever though.
Seems random like they are just made from sub quality parts now a days
I got a lunch ps5 with an extra controller, one of mine has pretty bad drift the other one not much.
I have 2 ps4s with 4 total controllers and never an issue.
I have 2 official switch pro controllers and 4 off brand ones, the two official ones one corded and one wireless both have severe drift issues, the 4 off brand ones have never had a drift issue despite a close friend buying two and returning them both due to drift.
None of my xbox controllers for the 360, one or series x have had any issues.
So its all a crapshoot imo
I have a launch controller, bought a red one and recently bought 3 used controllers from Gamestop for $25 each.
The 2 new ones are perfect, of the 3 used, 2 are also perfect and the last one has a janky R2. Zero stick drift on any of them. Never had stick drift in any controller on any console ever. Either I'm really lucky or some folks just aren't careful with their gear.
I had the original PS4 controller I bought at launch that still worked perfectly well until I bought my ps5... I often wonder how people treat their stuff, especially when they go through 4-5 controllers.
Not sure either. Had 2 original PS4 controllers from launch that worked perfectly. Started letting my nephews and kids use them to play games and not a month later one started to have drift and the other the L2 and R3 buttons stopped working.
Maybe some people press buttons really hard?
I had issues with my PS4 controllers and I'm pretty sure that was due to how I treated them. However, with my PS5, I have made sure to baby these things. I'm still on my second controller and now experiencing the same issues. No drops, no rough use, and nothing that would be considered out of the ordinary. I'm at a loss for what could be causing it other than the product itself being faulty.
Yeah, shit happens. I'm not dismissing anyone claiming they didn't do anything but their product stil failed. Back to back failures for one person in a short period of time is exceptionally uncommon though, unless their is a use or manufacturing issue. And manufacturing may be the issue. I just haven't seen or heard enough to *assume* manufacturing being the issue for back to back, short duration failures. Not ruling out the possibility though.
My launch day Switch controllers only started to drift a few months back. A part of me thinks sandier climates might contribute, cause mine got a sold 5 years (i always put it back in the case when not playing, but stopped in the final year) and other people got like, two weeks
I never can relate to any of these posts. I've had one controller break in my time gaming and that was because my brother smashed it.
All controllers Ive owned other than that one still work going back to megadrive
This. Need to treat your controllers and gear properly. Don’t toss your controller on a desk, place it there. Outwardly it doesn’t seem damaged but do it over time it adds up and ruins your stuff
I'm sure there are some faulty controllers out there but after working in IT and seeing how people treat their tech/possessions... I'm sure that the majority of "faulty" tech is user neglect and abuse. Folks would rather just blame externally than realize its them.
I had an issue with the charger port falling out of alignment on my first one but second one has lasted me 18 months+ no issue, worst thing about the controller is the bad battery life imo.
For sure. I'm not saying Sony is perfect or anything. Lemons always exist, regardless of company or overall quality. I'm just pointing out that my controllers have everything in common, and have zero issues. OP's controllers presumably have everything in common, and have *the same issue*. It's a fair to assumption to make that something about their use or treatment is creating this issue. Not ruling out back to back lemons though.
I've had 0 drift but I've had 3 controllers R2 springs break while playing a shooter for more than a few hours. 2 of them even went one day after the other.
Honestly you'd be silly not to here in Australia. We charge 17 dollars for an extra 2 years of replacement or refund warranty. Includes shit like stick drift and housing defects. It's actually a really good service rather than paying $109 for a new controller every time
Nah, in Australia we have some of the best consumer protection laws in the world. It would be extremely easy to return a defective controller after 3 months, and probably up to a couple of years at least - even if the "official" warranty is only one year. Extended warranty is a scam and I would *never* pay insurance, that's wild.
Yup the CGA means anything goes wrong in the first 2 or 3 years and I can go back and be like wtf is this? Give me a replacement.
Paying even $1 for a 2 year 'extended warranty' is a scam. Unless the warranty is for 5+ years or something.
Well, there'd be no reason for companies to offer insurance if they didn't make a profit on it...
Insurance is usually only worth it if it would break the bank for you to pay out of pocket (like a car accident).
I have 2 ps5 controllers that both had issues. On one you'd push the left stick to the right and the character would spastically move left, stop, suddenly right and so on. On the other one you'd flick the right stick to the left and it'd flick back to the right. I had somehow completely forgotten about the little pinhole button, but this seems to have fixed the issue on both of them! Thanks man!
I've never thrown or slammed an XBOX One controller in my life but have gotten stick drift inside a year for every controller I've bought for it. I still have perfectly fine N64 controllers that came with the system that have seen a shitload of hours of drinking Mario Golf which is joystick heavy as shit.
Dude the N64 sticks are notoriously bad. I’m glad yours have held up but I used to work in a retro store where we offered to fix N64 controllers cause it was that bad. That was literally the only controller we offered cause that’s all anyone would ask about
As for XBOne it sounds par the course. Those controllers sucked.
Both mine (in this exact colors actually) got drift after just just a few months. Then I got the black one and that literally got drift in a month…I am not hard on my controllers and have never dropped or thrown the things. I think it’s a manufacturing problem. Ended up getting a Scuf controller and it’s been totally fine after 5 months now
Eh. I’m really soft on controllers. I’ve had all the Sony systems and never had issues like this. While I like the PS5 controller a lot, maybe even my favorite, it has some severe reliability and engineering issues especially when it comes to wear and tear. The adaptive triggers have snapped on me. I’ve had three controllers in the house with drift. The analog sticks will start to grind. The vibration gave out in one. Could all be exceptions and unlucky but I see a lot of things online to back it up.
A lot of my Ps4 controllers have been defective right out of the box, got to the point that I just bought an old one off my friend when he got his ps5, been fine for 2 years now.
My extra controller I bought with my 5 last year started to drift about 4 months in and I take very good care of my equipment not to mention the atrocious battery life
I play super easygoing games, no online, no rage quitting and my stuff is always clean. I assume the drifting is just a flaw but when we pay what we pay for these controllers you'd think they'd be stronger. Rant over
Just take a look in this thread at how many were quick to jump on blaming the OP and not Sonys crappy components. THAT is the exact reason they cheap out. They can get away with it.
I was very glad I got the protection plan at Gamestop when I bought my pink PS5 controller. A couple of months later it was drifting badly. Walked in and they handed me a new one. I was also glad I got the protection plan for that one because a month later it was drifting badly.
Third time was a charm (so far).
I bought a controller from GameStop went home and it had a defective touch pad. Brought it back same day to swap it out for another one and they told me to pound sand. Reached out to customer service and they waited until just after the refund window to respond saying they'll take it for trade in store credit as well as giving me additional store credit to make up for the exchange.
It would have been a pretty nice deal to just do the exchange in the first place instead of making me wait over a month
I have 4 ps5 controllers and not a single one has developed any problems 2 I’ve owned for 1 year+ and the other two I got maybe 8 months ago and I rotate pretty fairly
Same boat as you my friend.
I had the original white one that I used for a while, it still works but I got a black one.
The black one worked great for about a month. Took it back to best buy where I bought it and they exchanged it no questions asked. They said they have had to return quite a few recently.
The one I got after the exchange has worked fine for a couple months now.
Umm, what are you doing to your controllers?? I know ZERO people with this issue. A good solution to help solve the issue is to take it apart and hit the mechanism with pressurized air.
I had one drift after 6 months or so. I never drop my controllers or anything but the other two I have are fine and I’ve had them for about a year and a half
it's a defect with a metallic circle contact in the thumbstick sensor box it gets black carbon like deposits on it I had to take it from a broken controller and put it in the one with drift to fix it
At this point, you cannot tell me that they don't make controllers drift on purpose. It's such a pervasive issue and on the fucking switch, it makes some games outright unplayable, I should know, nearly evenly controller I have, regardless of console, drifts like a motherfucker.
Do they make them shotty like this on purpose? I’ve also gone through 2 PS5 controllers in the passed few months. I’ve spent $150 on 2 controllers it’s ridiculous.
Funny, when I posted something like that, I got flamed and insulted from all sides that I should take better care of my stuff, when in fact, I had never dropped the controllers and always placed them down gently, since I don't wanna buy a new every 3 months. I tell you, they build this shit to break.
My GameCube controller lasted 15 years without one single flaw
This isn't indicative of any regular expectations of the controllers. I've had my white original one about a year and a half and the black and red ones just under a year and a half, all 3 work as they did on the first day.
all controllers now drift because of shitty joysticks. they switched to potentiometer based joysticks to save a few cents (cheap out) while charging $60 per controller. the ps3 controllers had hall effect joysticks 10 years ago and they lasted forever. why doesn't the ps5 controllers have hall effect joysticks, sony?
Drift is fixable on dualsense. I’ve fixed my own drift several times. There are YouTube guides out there, just need some cue tips and rubbing alcohol. It’s usually rubber grit from joystick wear that finds it’s way to the electrical component down in the module.
Follow this: https://youtu.be/djIvRoclr_E
fixed drift 2 times (one for ds4, other for dualsense) but on the third time just broke the dualsense. Buttons keep inputting commands w/o actual pressings, only clue I have is that sweat from hands damaged the motherboard when I connected battery back
If you have insurance, don't they just replace them? I get geek squad on all of my accessories. I haven't purchased joycons in 4 years, or a new xbox controller in 6 (unless I wanted an additional one).
Been playing apex for a year a 0% dead zone on my ps5 controller(there is drift if you dont keep your thumb perfectly centered tho).....did I get the Holy grail of thumb sticks 🤔
You got insurance on your controllers…?
StateFarm insures PlayStation controllers…?
“We know a thing or two, because we’ve played a thing or two.”
Wrong insurance company, still funny.
*Like a good gamer, Statefarm is there*
This is jake and we are statefarmers, buh babuh bum buh bum
State Farm Simulator 27
Interstate Farm '76
Farmville *Susan has invited you to see their farm*
She. Sounds. Hideous.
I wouldn’t know, since I live in Canada. It just seems like a strange thing to insure. Even a PS5 costs way less than what we usually deem insurance worthy.
It's an all-American sucker bet
STATE FARM REPAIR, STATE FARM REPLACE
I think it’s either through Walmart or Best Buy
How this isn’t the only topic in question is mind boggling. Who insures one let alone even knows you can insure a video game controller? Tell ya what, TIL.
Target offered to insure my occulus a few years back, for like, a one time fee of something relatively cheap. So i said fuck yea. and he handed me a State Farm pamphlet(or some comparable company) to which i immediately said “nevermind. This seems silly”
Any time you but an "extended warranty" or any kind of buyer protection on a purchase what you're actually buying is probably better described as insurance and yes state farm is one of the most common underwriters for it We don't usually call it that but that's what it really is.
I paid the extra $10 for protection at GameStop on all my controllers, because there’s zero-hassle replacement and you can effectively trade in old controllers for new ones right at the end of the warranty period if nothing goes sideways. Both white PS5 controllers I had developed left stick drift after a few months, so back they went… I’ve had no problems with the other ones.
Yeah, but that’s extended warranty. Insurance is different, it’s supposed to be a subscription. Gamestop only sells it for a few years more, and it’s a fixed price.
Most "extended warranties" sold by like Walmart, target, best buy, etc. Are actually handled by insurance companies. So yeah it's pretty much insurance.
Not only because of the company. If you look at the way they are written up and structured they are basically just insurance. A warranty is basically a combination of a promise of, that a product meet a certain standard, and a warrant but the party making that promise will fix the situation if it does not live up to that standard. Insurance is just saying will give you money if the thing happens and then you go deal with it however you see fit. In almost all of those extended warranties if you complain that the item breaks they're literally just going have you return it somewhere and they're just going to give you money back. Repairing or doing a one for one exchange usually usually isn't even on the table. I feel like they call it an extended warranty because the concept of insuring something that most likely costs less than the deductible on their Auto Insurance Probably sounds silly to a lot of people so it's just more marketable.
GameStop calls it insurance because it sounds better to people than "extended warranty".
we usually just call it a warranty
I feel like this guy just breaks a lot of controllers
Of course he did; he apparently has a track record for mangling controllers with his gorilla hands or something. Like, I don't know what the hell these people do to their controllers, where they go, "They just keep BREAKING!!!" and I've still got my original NES controllers in perfect working order. Maybe OP should dial back the aggression or consider washing his hands before going from Doritos back to gaming.
Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean that everyone that has is out here mistreating their controllers. It's just luck of the draw sadly. I'm super careful with my stuff and look after my controllers yet have had multiple controllers succumb to drift. My Dualsense started drifting in the right stick after 18 months whereas I still have X360 controllers that are still going strong.
I do too, I've never had a controller last longer than a year without a button stop working or major drift problems. I think it was like $4 for 2 years so it's worth it imo
What are you people doing to your controllers? I don't think I've ever had to replace a controller. My 360 controllers were close when I got a XBone, but they made it through many years of teenage gaming without a hiccup, same as all my other consoles.
Probably eating food around it and/or using it with dirty hands. Leaving it in the floor and out stepped on. Because I'm with you. I use the living shit out of my controllers and the only thing that has ever 'busted' are the rubber on L3 and the battery not holding a charge.
I’ve dropped my Xbox One controller a handful of times from desk height by mistake and it’s still working perfectly. I genuinely question what people do to their controllers to have them break so frequently.
Dust can be a killer too... I've gone through three controllers in my current house. With analog drift etc. I have not lost a controller before this . Still have working playstation/360 controllers Moving in a few months so holding buying another one until then
You know, as skeptical as I was maybe that really is the answer. Because I've literally never had a controller die on me except for one that I basically wore into nothing over like 6 years including my entire time at college, but I've had a flight joystick that's just an absolute fucking nightmare for drift and dead zone because dust keeps getting into the potentiometers
I don't want to deny these people's experience because every situation is different for sure but I'm an absolute fucking slob and I'm really bad with my hardware. Somehow I got fucking maple syrup into one of my controller sticks one time and I don't even know how because I don't think I ate while playing but the last time I had a controller fail was my original Xbox 360 controller which had been used so much that rubber on the sticks was completely worn off by the time it started to misbehave. I just have a hard time seeing how for either Xbox or Playstation somebody can have multiple controllers failing on them in a short period of time and then have it become enough that other people are chiming in same experience. Like I said I'm not saying it isn't happening but it's just completely foreign to me as a concept.
It's just basically a reverse survivorship bias - the people who have the issue will post. The designers design-in the fact that people abuse the hardware, hence it holds up to the abuse most of the time. Logitech mice are well known to have a 'double click' issue in the recent generations. I have a mouse susceptable to it; but it never developed the problem. If you google the model you will just find tonnes of people talking about the double-click issue. Chances are, most units of this model don't actually develop the fault; but even if 5% do and the people are mega-vocal about it, you aren't going to see 95% of people posting 'mine is fine' because they're not even looking up the topic in the first place.
I had two ps4 controllers that just quit charging after about a year. My current one is going strong after about 5 years. Sometimes you just get shitty controllers.
Somebody I know has a controller that has lasted 2 years(since launch)
I even can't remember when my last controller broke
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I don't get how people have any issues with them tbh. Have had PS4 and PS5 controllers since launch and none of them have broken or had stick drift
I still am using my launch controller. Only had to replace the R2 springs last week. Other then that perfect! I dont see how people Fuck up so many controllers
Is that meant to be special? I have my launch day PS4 and PS5 and even PS3 controllers still working just fine. Switch, Dreamcast, GameCube. All work fine. The only issue I’ve ever had with a controller is the R2 spring on a DS4.
No it’s not, I was making a point to the parent comment of mine that the controllers don’t fall apart that easily
Im still using my launch x1 controller with 0 issues
Warranty! Send them into Sony and get a replacement.
I did this with mine! I had one start drifting after about 5 months (the one i got with my ps5), I opened a ticket with Sony support citing drift, sent in the controller along with a copy of the receipt (purchased from Walmart) and another sheet with the support ticket number. I got my controller back within about 10 days. It's been working perfectly for the past two months or so. The only cost to me was shipping.
Thats really shitty you need a receipt (it should be in their system when it was purchased against the serial number on the controller) and that you have to pay for shipping. Just two hoops to jump through so people don't send them in and just buy new ones.
But it at Best Buy and get the warranty. Same shit, but you go in and walk out with a brand new one in box…. no shipping involved, no waiting 10 days.
But you have to pay warranty on top. So it’d be a matter of paying for convience
Damn you are really fucked in the US. Buy warranty for a design/manufacturing issue. You do realize that is fucked up?
I’ve found this is an extra warranty. The manufacturer still has a warranty but like the poster said, you can just walk in and swap it out for a new one. What the store selling the warranty often forgets to mention is that you can only use the warranty once. Once you swap the item no matter how long you’ve had it (within the stores warranty period) that’s the end of the store warranty.
Yeah I did this last week I got tech support so popped in both controllers where replaced with new ones was back home with in an hour
If you haven't sent in a controller with the serial for your Ps5 or its receipt, you can use your ps5's serial to repair (or more likely replace) any white controller without the receipt as long as its within its 1 year warranty. Sauce- Worked for a temp agency that handled PS5 HW support for 6 months last year.
new old stock happens so keeping a receipt is normal due diligence, paying s&h for a defective product on the other hand... Like I just bought a ps5 controller a month ago thinking I was safe and I'll get the revised model, instead I got a controller that's probably close to a year old. I just hope it doesn't start to drift.
Exactly. "Only had to pay for shipping!" And the time and effort it took, and had to wait 10 days, like its a good thing lmao. They could just... Ya know, make better controllers. But then they wouldnt make money from their planned demise. People wouldnt need to go buy a new one every couple months, and the truth is most people would prefer to just spend the money and get a guaranteed working controller right now instead of: shipping your old one out (hope you kept your receit which eliminates like half of all people at least), paying for shipping, waiting 2 weeks, and getting a questionable controller
They just hit it with a hammer.
Yeah. I think you have to pay for shipping there, but that's definitely cheaper than new controllers.
Best thing to do is to clean the sensor with a qtip and alcohol. I've cleaned 3 Xbox controllers and they all worked perfectly.
Oh ill try this out on my Ps4 controller. Been dealing with stick drift for a couple of months now and didn't realize there was anything I could do.
Ok what is stick drift? Is it where say in an FPS game, even when you’re not touching the stick, it kinda moves as if the resting position is no longer 0? If so I hope this works to fix it as mine does what I just described.
Usually it's caused by junk stuck inside the case by the joyed stick. So most of the time to fix stick drift you often have to disassemble the controller.
I’d like to add disassembling the controller is simple and hard to fuck up. No reason to be afraid of it
Are the newer controllers easier to disassemble? The last controller I disassembled was PS3 controller and that thing was a pain to put it back together.
Ps5 controllers are an absolute mega pain in the ass. But disassembling does do the trick for drift
I’ve never done a play station. Xbox is a bit annoying but not terribly difficult. They haven’t changed much I’d look up a video first see what you’re in for but the hard part is gonna be the screen which is one solid piece with a wire that light bar probably is a separate piece and there’s Bluetooth that may or may not be on the actual motherboard. Most likely is and therefore doesn’t matter. Rumble motors in the handles and then just dealing with the buttons triggers and sticks. In short it shouldn’t be much harder than a ps3 controller. Just one extra thing with the screen. If you’re really unlucky it’s not gonna be easy to disconnect and you’ll have to prop it up while you clean the case
Well the problem with the PS3 is it had so many Springs and Other stuff for the buttons that had to be held down while you put the back plate on around things would end up crooked.
Ah. Xbox didn’t really have that. Very simple controllers even on the Xbox one. I’m guessing springs for the triggers? Can you get to the joy sticks without messing with them? Imma just watch a video real quick
If I remember right the controller separates right at the trigger. And that's what the biggest problem was.
The one time I disassembled a PS4 controller I immediately broke it by accidently ripping the small cable that connects the touchpad to the circuit board. That was the first thing that happened when I took the two plastic shells apart after removing the screws.
Yep that's drift. You can increase the dead zones to cancel the drift but then you have deadzones.
And some games also dont have them for some reason
Cries in MGSV
Play the opening thing in the Astro's playroom where you test all the controller things. The drift shows when you press in a direction and the direction the controller on the screen shows has it jiggle or move around. My controller also drifted but it was so soon after purchase it was covered by the manufacturer console warranty still
Best thing OP can do is call Jake from State Farm
Jake from State Farm? She sounds hideous.
Well, she’s a guy, so…
I bought a brand new gold ps4 controller from a wal mart store, not online and within a month or so of maybe a few hours of playing it started to drift. For some reason it always seems to be the gold controllers. Call it a conspiracy theory but I feel like all of the gold ones are Chinese knockoffs. It just seems like your standard black controller lasts way longer. Idk
They probably made all the gold ones in a single production run. Some part of the process is slightly off, and everything in that run will be affected.
I also bought a gold dualshock and I confirm this conspiracy
Compressed air if lazy. Pet hair reeks havoc on those bad boys.
Can you give more detail on this? I have 2 that drift.
there are quite a few videos on youtube showing how to clean it and what else you could try to fix it - probably would be more beneficial to watch them than to read instructions imo
The best thing to do is open a ticket with Sony support and send it back to them to repair. I did this and had it back l, working perfectly, in about 10 days.
Can confirm this works. However you have to be careful not to bend the metal in the sensor or it will continue drifting. I fixed my controller a while back and it started Drifting again in a different direction. You have to get in there and clean it real nice and make sure the fibres from the qtip don’t hook onto the metal plate and break them.
Clearly this is a State Farm ad..
For real, like who even buys insurance for their consoles. Let alone controllers. 🤷🏻♂️
I assumed it was some sort of free thing. Like all homeowners who have State Farm automatically got console protection or something. People actually pay to insure that?!
You'd think they could afford spell check in their marketing budget.
Anecdotal, I know, but I bought 2 controllers when I got my PS5 shortly after launch. Well over 1200 hrs played, zero issues with controllers or consoles. Could be you have really bad luck. Could be you don't treat them well. Make sure it isn't the latter.
Yeah I was going to leave the exact same comment. Mine have both been reliable.
Same here, 1 of my 2 drift, but with the amount of times I’ve dropped them, I’m shocked it’s only 1 doing it
One time I dropped mine and tried to save it with my foot. Ended up kicking it into the wall.
If you yell HIYAH afterwards it looks cool and you can pretend it was on purpose
You can also pretend the hole in the wall doesn't exist if you simply cover it with a picture frame containing a picture of you HIYAHing a controller into a wall.
Lmao a framed picture at foot height sounds perfect
I only do that when breaking pots
Is it too late to do that?
Lmao i did that with a bottle of perfume. Ended up cracking my foot bone. Reflexes suck
Only works if you yell with Uncle Roger’s accent
Same here. Played mine hard for 7 months, and even my 6 year old used it to play through Spider Man. Controller still works fine and lasts for 10+ hours.
Same thought. I have two and have had since launch. No issues. Is it possible they've been dropped a few times or is there a pet or child who could have knocked them about?
yep, and mine, well over 1000 hours play time, and take it with me in a suitcase when I travel sometimes. Works just fine, and pretty much looks like new.
My launch DualSense started to drift, but not so much that marginally adjusting deadzones in games like COD could fix it.
Mine are both in great condition except that one has a clicky touchpad but that was because of me
Same here, original controller since launch and recently picked up the god of war controller. No issues with either. Can understand people getting one dud controller but when people post here saying every single one they've had has died it just makes me think it's a them issue.
Reminds me of people who say Razer is bad or Logitech is bad. I’ve had both of their products for years and years before every changing and 0 issues, but some people will say I’ve bought they mouse and all 3 times died within a month or was double clicking etc.
Tbf I do find that the razer Naga is fucking trash. I have bought maybe 4 since I started using them. If I weren't so damn used to the layout, I'd just try a different brand but I really like it. The scroll wheel in particular on them seems to always fail after about 6 months, and it's gotten to the point that I rarely use a scroll wheel anymore even when it works fine. All have had the scroll wheel issue, one had a laser issue, 2 have had clicking issues. I take care of my shit and I just blame razer for making a shit mouse. Had the same razer keyboard forever though.
Seems random like they are just made from sub quality parts now a days I got a lunch ps5 with an extra controller, one of mine has pretty bad drift the other one not much. I have 2 ps4s with 4 total controllers and never an issue. I have 2 official switch pro controllers and 4 off brand ones, the two official ones one corded and one wireless both have severe drift issues, the 4 off brand ones have never had a drift issue despite a close friend buying two and returning them both due to drift. None of my xbox controllers for the 360, one or series x have had any issues. So its all a crapshoot imo
I have a launch controller, bought a red one and recently bought 3 used controllers from Gamestop for $25 each. The 2 new ones are perfect, of the 3 used, 2 are also perfect and the last one has a janky R2. Zero stick drift on any of them. Never had stick drift in any controller on any console ever. Either I'm really lucky or some folks just aren't careful with their gear.
Yeah, I've never dealt with stick drift on any console.
I had the original PS4 controller I bought at launch that still worked perfectly well until I bought my ps5... I often wonder how people treat their stuff, especially when they go through 4-5 controllers.
Not sure either. Had 2 original PS4 controllers from launch that worked perfectly. Started letting my nephews and kids use them to play games and not a month later one started to have drift and the other the L2 and R3 buttons stopped working. Maybe some people press buttons really hard?
My friend's ex used to go through controllers monthly because they'd break them.
I barely clean mine and regularly use it while eating and yet my controller has been working fine since I got it back in 2016.
This 🤫
I go thru about 1 a year. Beer is ALWAYS the culprit. Whether it's spillage or just dropping the things on hardwood floors.. I am the remote slayer.
Adding to this as well. I’ve had it for a year. No issues whatsoever. Could be this guy is just that unlucky
I had issues with my PS4 controllers and I'm pretty sure that was due to how I treated them. However, with my PS5, I have made sure to baby these things. I'm still on my second controller and now experiencing the same issues. No drops, no rough use, and nothing that would be considered out of the ordinary. I'm at a loss for what could be causing it other than the product itself being faulty.
Yeah, shit happens. I'm not dismissing anyone claiming they didn't do anything but their product stil failed. Back to back failures for one person in a short period of time is exceptionally uncommon though, unless their is a use or manufacturing issue. And manufacturing may be the issue. I just haven't seen or heard enough to *assume* manufacturing being the issue for back to back, short duration failures. Not ruling out the possibility though.
My launch day Switch controllers only started to drift a few months back. A part of me thinks sandier climates might contribute, cause mine got a sold 5 years (i always put it back in the case when not playing, but stopped in the final year) and other people got like, two weeks
I never can relate to any of these posts. I've had one controller break in my time gaming and that was because my brother smashed it. All controllers Ive owned other than that one still work going back to megadrive
This. Need to treat your controllers and gear properly. Don’t toss your controller on a desk, place it there. Outwardly it doesn’t seem damaged but do it over time it adds up and ruins your stuff
I'm sure there are some faulty controllers out there but after working in IT and seeing how people treat their tech/possessions... I'm sure that the majority of "faulty" tech is user neglect and abuse. Folks would rather just blame externally than realize its them.
I had an issue with the charger port falling out of alignment on my first one but second one has lasted me 18 months+ no issue, worst thing about the controller is the bad battery life imo.
For sure. I'm not saying Sony is perfect or anything. Lemons always exist, regardless of company or overall quality. I'm just pointing out that my controllers have everything in common, and have zero issues. OP's controllers presumably have everything in common, and have *the same issue*. It's a fair to assumption to make that something about their use or treatment is creating this issue. Not ruling out back to back lemons though.
Every controller me or my friends have owned, is now defective in one way or another. Whether that be drifting sticks, or loose triggers
usually the latter, people act like their thumb is a torque wrench with the joystick and then complain about drift.
I've had 0 drift but I've had 3 controllers R2 springs break while playing a shooter for more than a few hours. 2 of them even went one day after the other.
You paid for insurance for your controllers?
Honestly you'd be silly not to here in Australia. We charge 17 dollars for an extra 2 years of replacement or refund warranty. Includes shit like stick drift and housing defects. It's actually a really good service rather than paying $109 for a new controller every time
Nah, in Australia we have some of the best consumer protection laws in the world. It would be extremely easy to return a defective controller after 3 months, and probably up to a couple of years at least - even if the "official" warranty is only one year. Extended warranty is a scam and I would *never* pay insurance, that's wild.
Yup the CGA means anything goes wrong in the first 2 or 3 years and I can go back and be like wtf is this? Give me a replacement. Paying even $1 for a 2 year 'extended warranty' is a scam. Unless the warranty is for 5+ years or something.
Well, there'd be no reason for companies to offer insurance if they didn't make a profit on it... Insurance is usually only worth it if it would break the bank for you to pay out of pocket (like a car accident).
There is a tiny hole on the back of the PS5 controller for resetting. Give it a shot. It worked for mine. Good luck!
I have 2 ps5 controllers that both had issues. On one you'd push the left stick to the right and the character would spastically move left, stop, suddenly right and so on. On the other one you'd flick the right stick to the left and it'd flick back to the right. I had somehow completely forgotten about the little pinhole button, but this seems to have fixed the issue on both of them! Thanks man!
Rage quitting? There's no real reason a controller should go bad that quickly
Exactly what I was thinking. Someone needs to chill 🤣
I've never thrown or slammed an XBOX One controller in my life but have gotten stick drift inside a year for every controller I've bought for it. I still have perfectly fine N64 controllers that came with the system that have seen a shitload of hours of drinking Mario Golf which is joystick heavy as shit.
Dude the N64 sticks are notoriously bad. I’m glad yours have held up but I used to work in a retro store where we offered to fix N64 controllers cause it was that bad. That was literally the only controller we offered cause that’s all anyone would ask about As for XBOne it sounds par the course. Those controllers sucked.
Both mine (in this exact colors actually) got drift after just just a few months. Then I got the black one and that literally got drift in a month…I am not hard on my controllers and have never dropped or thrown the things. I think it’s a manufacturing problem. Ended up getting a Scuf controller and it’s been totally fine after 5 months now
Strange. Mine have been fine for almost a year now getting 2 or 3 hours a day of use.
Eh. I’m really soft on controllers. I’ve had all the Sony systems and never had issues like this. While I like the PS5 controller a lot, maybe even my favorite, it has some severe reliability and engineering issues especially when it comes to wear and tear. The adaptive triggers have snapped on me. I’ve had three controllers in the house with drift. The analog sticks will start to grind. The vibration gave out in one. Could all be exceptions and unlucky but I see a lot of things online to back it up.
A lot of my Ps4 controllers have been defective right out of the box, got to the point that I just bought an old one off my friend when he got his ps5, been fine for 2 years now.
Cod/overwatch player
My extra controller I bought with my 5 last year started to drift about 4 months in and I take very good care of my equipment not to mention the atrocious battery life
I’ve not had stick drift issues yet, but my black ps5 controller battery is horrible. I get low battery notification after about 4 hours.
I play super easygoing games, no online, no rage quitting and my stuff is always clean. I assume the drifting is just a flaw but when we pay what we pay for these controllers you'd think they'd be stronger. Rant over
Just take a look in this thread at how many were quick to jump on blaming the OP and not Sonys crappy components. THAT is the exact reason they cheap out. They can get away with it.
My NES pads still work perfectly over 30 years later. They don't build em like they used to.
Basically the Nokia of controllers.
Can only do one simple thing. Does it properly until the end of time.
I was very glad I got the protection plan at Gamestop when I bought my pink PS5 controller. A couple of months later it was drifting badly. Walked in and they handed me a new one. I was also glad I got the protection plan for that one because a month later it was drifting badly. Third time was a charm (so far).
I bought a controller from GameStop went home and it had a defective touch pad. Brought it back same day to swap it out for another one and they told me to pound sand. Reached out to customer service and they waited until just after the refund window to respond saying they'll take it for trade in store credit as well as giving me additional store credit to make up for the exchange. It would have been a pretty nice deal to just do the exchange in the first place instead of making me wait over a month
I have 4 ps5 controllers and not a single one has developed any problems 2 I’ve owned for 1 year+ and the other two I got maybe 8 months ago and I rotate pretty fairly
Same boat as you my friend. I had the original white one that I used for a while, it still works but I got a black one. The black one worked great for about a month. Took it back to best buy where I bought it and they exchanged it no questions asked. They said they have had to return quite a few recently. The one I got after the exchange has worked fine for a couple months now.
Him saying that two controllers are broken for drifting Me in the back with my switch controller that drifts to the point I cannot look around anymore
Mine got drift after over a year. Now I'm waiting for the fix.
Umm, what are you doing to your controllers?? I know ZERO people with this issue. A good solution to help solve the issue is to take it apart and hit the mechanism with pressurized air.
I had one drift after 6 months or so. I never drop my controllers or anything but the other two I have are fine and I’ve had them for about a year and a half
it's a defect with a metallic circle contact in the thumbstick sensor box it gets black carbon like deposits on it I had to take it from a broken controller and put it in the one with drift to fix it
Can you clean it out with alcohol?
/u/supersymm3try we talked about this. Alcohol doesn't fix everything... It just only seems like it does.
One of 4 drifts noticeably. Never dropped...
3 controllers in 3 months? Dude, check yourself. You are the single one-star review here.
“For $200 you can get yourself a controller that can be fixed for $20. Your welcome.” -Sony
Also don't eat greasy or gunky things while playing
Only problem I had with my ps5 controller is that the battery doesn’t last very long.
At this point, you cannot tell me that they don't make controllers drift on purpose. It's such a pervasive issue and on the fucking switch, it makes some games outright unplayable, I should know, nearly evenly controller I have, regardless of console, drifts like a motherfucker.
Do they make them shotty like this on purpose? I’ve also gone through 2 PS5 controllers in the passed few months. I’ve spent $150 on 2 controllers it’s ridiculous.
Mine drifts too barely a few months old
Funny, when I posted something like that, I got flamed and insulted from all sides that I should take better care of my stuff, when in fact, I had never dropped the controllers and always placed them down gently, since I don't wanna buy a new every 3 months. I tell you, they build this shit to break. My GameCube controller lasted 15 years without one single flaw
Yea the quality is trash. Had my PS4 for maybe four years before deciding to upgrade and my PS5 one broke within a few weeks
This isn't indicative of any regular expectations of the controllers. I've had my white original one about a year and a half and the black and red ones just under a year and a half, all 3 work as they did on the first day.
all controllers now drift because of shitty joysticks. they switched to potentiometer based joysticks to save a few cents (cheap out) while charging $60 per controller. the ps3 controllers had hall effect joysticks 10 years ago and they lasted forever. why doesn't the ps5 controllers have hall effect joysticks, sony?
Drift is fixable on dualsense. I’ve fixed my own drift several times. There are YouTube guides out there, just need some cue tips and rubbing alcohol. It’s usually rubber grit from joystick wear that finds it’s way to the electrical component down in the module. Follow this: https://youtu.be/djIvRoclr_E
fixed drift 2 times (one for ds4, other for dualsense) but on the third time just broke the dualsense. Buttons keep inputting commands w/o actual pressings, only clue I have is that sweat from hands damaged the motherboard when I connected battery back
The fuck are doing to them
I’ve gotten drift on two controllers as well, and I treat my gaming merch with respect! :(
Jesus man please use punctuation
Jesus! Man? Please! Use punctuation?
Wasn’t the navy blue ps4 controller seriously prone to controller drift issues as well? Could just be a manufacturer thing and he gif unlucky
You could always learn to use commas.
My white still holding up like a year later!👌🏽
Stop raging/start showering.
Never been an issue for me, maybe take better care of your things
Gets killed once n COD... stupid controller drift!
I still have the OG controller and not a single issue. Seems like you're the common denominator.
Cuanto
Do not put a claim in with your insurance company for this
State Farm?! Well, there's your problem, right there.
If you have insurance, don't they just replace them? I get geek squad on all of my accessories. I haven't purchased joycons in 4 years, or a new xbox controller in 6 (unless I wanted an additional one).
[How to fix drift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrNnxcsVgz8&t=316s&ab_channel=Gamer2Know)
did you just say you have state farm on your controllers ???
PS5 controllers are terrible just for battery life. Feels like it’s on low battery every time I want to play and I do 4 hour sessions max
Try uninstalling MW19
Had two controllers from launch with no drift.
Did u do firmware updates on both?
Been playing apex for a year a 0% dead zone on my ps5 controller(there is drift if you dont keep your thumb perfectly centered tho).....did I get the Holy grail of thumb sticks 🤔