Hi all. I’m sick of replacing my whole controller when the thumbsticks die but it looks like a big job to replace them. Does anyone know of a 3rd party controller under $100 that’s more serviceable? Something where I could replace a bad thumbstick in 5-10 minutes rather than half an hour? The edge looks nice, but is price prohibitive for me. I don’t need all those extra features, just the replaceable thumbsticks.
In my experience, most stick drift seems to be fixed by taking it apart and dousing that cube piece with rubbing alcohol. Bonus points if you gently pop off the two plastic sides and really get up in there. Put it all back together carefully and there you go. It’s so often dust or some other kind of dirtiness. Have done this a dozen times over 10 years across varying controllers of all consoles. Latest one I did was a knockoff switch controller and took me about 5 minutes cause it was a ridiculously simple controller. Have done it to many Playstation controllers.
There are countless videos online showing how to.
Also keep in mind that the dualsense edge thumbstick modules are chronically out of stock, so if you get an edge you might not even get to replace the sticks.
Yeah the price on amazon is 60 EUR now when you can find them which kinda defeats the whole point anyway. Ideal design would be something where the sticks are mounted on an easily removable daughterboard which you can buy replacements of and just solder new sticks onto and toss the old one, so you don’t have to desolder anything.
I’d also like to know. It seems that every console this generation uses the same joystick part, which as you said takes half an hour to desolder and resolder.