A YouTube tech channel run by the folks behind iFixit has published a teardown video that explains the joystick drift issues plaguing Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo controllers.
To summarize what’s happening, the drift happens when the sticks’ potentiometer wears out from use. According to the stick manufacturer ALPS, the component’s potentiometer lifespan averages 2,000,000 cycles. iFixit estimated that this translates to just over 400 hours…
