Comment by dragontamer
3 years ago
> Consumer grade products aren't built to last, they are built to be cheap so they can sell them to actual consumers
Video game gamepads are probably some of the most well designed pieces of equipment I know of, with each part having a guaranteed lifetime of clicks and/or swipes, and other such details.
Video gamers are really obsessive over these details. It wouldn't be surprising to me if the latest hall-effect sensor joypads are the best durability in the world for thumbpads.
That being said: a cheap Logitech controller would be an old potentiometer-based controller with far less durability. I'm sure if I asked around, someone out there knows the specifications and would know when to regularly replace that gamepad after X-hours of use (and I'd expect X-hours to be in excess of 1000 hours, maybe even 10,000+ hours, even for a gamepad like that)
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I think where video gamers are getting wow'd is that... they weren't using like a brand-name controller here. $30 Logitech is low-end. Video gamers know which controllers to rely upon.
Bottom of the barrel $30 Logitech is barely something I feel good about giving to a friend during a gaming session, let alone a life-or-death equipment choice for steering a submarine. You get far more reliable, higher-quality gamepads at the $50 or even $80 levels.
I don't think video gamers would be hating on these guys if they used... I dunno... an 8bitdo + GuliKit Hall Effect controller. We'd all be like "Oh yeah, that's quality stuff" (the Bluetooth is unreliable but I assume some kind of wired version is available somewhere...)
The top end joysticks used in video game tournaments for maximum reliability are easily $200+.
> The top end joysticks used in video game tournaments for maximum reliability are easily $200+.
Not the $30 Logitech controller, ever heard of joystick drift? plastic is plastic, imagine you in a mission, and your joystick starts to drift
or you are feet away from 50 foot section of the rusted Titanic and you drift into causing it to crash on top of your sub, or worst cracking the front window barely rated for 1/4 of the depth you are at.
as he pilots the missile guided nuclear warhead with his $30 joystick, Sgt James's controller's joystick drifts and hit New York by accident!.. the city is gone.. he could have avoided this issue, but unfortunately, the buttons were stuck because it's raining and the controller is not water proof, it's unfortunate to loose the WW3 due to this $30 mistake!
- fiction, obviously
> Bottom of the barrel $30 Logitech is barely something I feel good about giving to a friend during a gaming session, let alone a life-or-death equipment choice for steering a submarine.
I wish my friend whose mom bought him MadCatz controllers had your manners and sense of propriety.