>>713686861
Hall effect sticks use magnets to determine where you're pointing it. Conventional sticks use potentiometers, which do wear down eventually like all magnetic components. Theoretically every conventional stick has a limited lifespan, though in practice this lifespan is pretty long unless it's a compact stick like those on the joycons. Joycons had an issue with stick drift due to their shitty potentiometers, and so "hall effect sticks" became a meme phrase that redditors know but don't understand.
Hall effects sticks have essentially zero difference in feel compared to a normal stick, though it's easier to make very low-resistance thumbsticks using hall effect. Some companies will play into that and make their hall effect sticks very low resistance. This is very fucking retarded since it makes it FAR harder to be precise.
>>713687193
>Since magnets don't make physical contact theoretically there's no degradation of components so drift won't occur
"Components" still make contact to hold the fucking stick in place. It's just the potentiometers which aren't going to degrade.
