It is now confirmed: there is the same manufacturing concern in the PS5 controllers as in the Joy-Con of the Nintendo Switch. This famous drift which causes unwanted movements of the camera are indeed the cause of a malfunction of the analog sticks of the controller. Whether it is the Joy-Con Drift or the DualSense Drift, we take the matter very seriously in the United States where class-actions have been filed with the courts to seek redress from the manufacturer, in the Nintendo and Sony occurrence. If the complaint is now filed and the case is proceeding, know that the iFixit site has decided to conduct its own investigation to find out the reasons for such a malfunction. In an extremely detailed article and accompanied by a video of complete deboning of the DualSense to highlight the components targeted by this “slippage” of the controls, we see that the materials used in the DualSense are exactly the same as those we found in Xbox One and Xbox One Elite controllers.
Components that are customary due to the fact that their lifespan begins to wither from 2 million cycles, or about 400 hours of use. Basically, according to iFixit, a Call of Duty player will see these “drifts” appear from 4 to 7 months of use, at a rate of 2 hours of play per day. Problems “predictable and inevitable” according to the diagnosis of specialists at iFixit, since the analog sticks of the DualSense are made up of aging components with an expiration date known to all. There are obviously four well-localized reasons that cause this concern for drift: sensor wear, material stretch, spring fatigue and finally the dirt that settles among all these components. If it is possible to get rid of the dust, for the rest, it is quite complicated to fix them yourself. This is all the more serious because this problem of rapid wear of potentiometers is completely calculated on the part of the manufacturers, since this allows them to save on production costs.
This detailed investigation report by iFixit will allow the class action filed by Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith with the court of the southern district of New York to speed up the procedure to put Sony in default, which will have to think about a long-term solution. term so as not to get entangled in an affair that risks going on forever, as is the case with Nintendo and its Joy-con Drift, known for more than 3 years now. We will of course keep you informed of the rest.
