My fave controllers in no real order. PS4 controller.Switch Pro controller,Xbox One controller,Saturn Japanese pad controller,Dreamcast controller. SNES pad. Genesis 6 button.

Dual N64 controllers in golden eye 64. Ha those were the days.

360 pad is the best in my opinion.

i thought about that too yesterday

and i came to the conclusion, that if your controllers dont vreak, ull never buy new ones.

its the lightbulb principle. people are definitely capable of making more durable ones. but they dont.

I haven't had stick drift issues since the ps2.

The only Playstation station controllers I had a few problems with was the PS3 controllers. But It was because I spent a ton of time gaming on PS3 controllers from 2008 till 2015 ! Some days I would game 8 to 12 hours a day because of playing games online and a lot of awesome single player games came out during the 7th gen. .

How is it 3rd party companies can afford to make and sell them for cheaper?

Most likely to keep costs down. My side hustle is buying cheap stick drift plague PS5 controller and soldering new hall effect joysticks and selling them for a bit of profit. Been a blast experience and I have never used a soldering iron before until I started doing this.

Greed and laziness

So they can sell more controllers.

Hall Effect Joysticks or TMR: Tunneling Magneto Resistance should be in all controllers but the reason for not having them is GREED

Companies much rather sell $70-$90 new controller

Probably due to cost and the fact a company can make more money selling a new controller once the old controller gets the drift.

Isn't it because it makes them money by selling repairs for joysticks?

Simple, they want people to keep buying their controllers. I highly recommend 3rd party controllers with hall effects, a lot of budget friendly controllers have been doing this and with really great quality. 8Bitdo is great on PC and switch.

Dunno but my PS1, PS2. and PS3 controller thumbsticks still work perfectly. I don't know why modern one are so bad now.

Same reason BMW doesn't put oil dipsticks in their cars, you sell more cars if they only last 5 years instead of 10. Also it's not that hard to switch out the joysticks with aftermarket Hall effect ones that you can buy on Amazon or Ebay if you know your way around a soldering iron. I've done about 10 for me and some buddies.

1: Controller has high rate of failure
2: Customer buys new controller
3: Repeat
4: Profit

Everyone is always saying they don't switch to hall effect so they can sell more controllers, if that's so true I feel like there should have been a class action over this already.

Money

they wont use HAL effect sticks as they make too money selling controllers that they know will break sooner than later...

Because Hall Effect sensors are not 100% accurate to stick position.

I will not buy another controller that doesn't have TMR sticks. Simply a step above potentiometer, and a really solid improvement over Hall Effect. Although, Not all are created equally. I have an APEX 4 that has incredibly accurate hall effect 12-bit stick resolution with tension adjustment, and the Vader 4 is also in that same category. They feel incredible and in line with TMR sticks. TMR also doesn't seem to feel a bit tighter in feel than hall effect.