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u/EffectiveNo4438 — 9 days ago
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Sony had anti-drift sticks nearly 20 years ago... so why are we paying £70 for controllers they know can fail?
Was giving my OG DualShock 3 a clean today and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole after checking the board inside it.
Mine has an MSU_VX4_0.10 board. Turns out it's one of the earlier DualShock 3 revisions that uses 4-pin magnetic/Hall-effect analogue stick sensors, rather than the conventional potentiometer setup Sony later went back to.
Basically, instead of having a physical contact rubbing across a resistive track to work out the stick position, these use magnetic sensing. So you're getting rid of one of the main wear points that causes the usual stick drift.
And this wasn't some random prototype Sony tried once and binned. Several of the early DualShock 3 revisions used this setup before Sony eventually went back to conventional potentiometer sticks.
This controller is nearly 20 years old, still gets absolutely hammered pretty much daily, and hasn't got a hint of stick drift.
Meanwhile, I bought my PS5 at launch and I've already had two controllers fail. Through the PS4 generation I went through at least three. Yet this ancient PS3 controller just keeps plodding along with no bother.
That's the bit I cannae quite get my head around.
Sony clearly knew nearly 20 years ago how to make an analogue stick without the same physical wear point that's responsible for so much drift. Yet here we are now paying around £70 a pop for controllers using potentiometer-based sticks that they know can wear out.
And you cannae even say the technology wasn't around or hadn't been proven. Sony themselves were already putting it in controllers almost two decades ago.
Now Hall-effect sticks are getting punted as some premium "anti-drift" feature like it's some brand-new breakthrough 😂
It's mental when you actually think about it.
Sony didn't need to solve stick drift. They'd already cracked it nearly 20 years ago. Then they went backwards, and we're the mugs paying £70 a pop for it.
Pics are my actual daily controller and the MSU_VX4_0.10 board inside it.
u/Admirable-Yam-5788 — 10 days ago
Their stupidity knows no bounds
Already up to their neck in bad pr and they go ahead and implement this?
u/Truama-vix4 — 10 days ago
I made an infographic of how buying PlayStation games has changed, and where I think it's heading
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u/nyasha_py — 11 days ago
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Sony’s automated report system is completely broken—and their refusal to allow manual reviews is unacceptable.
We need to talk about how PlayStation handles player reports and suspensions, because the current system is an absolute joke for a multi-billion-dollar company.
Right now, Sony relies almost entirely on aggressive automated keyword filters. If you are in a group chat with friends using sarcastic banter, or if you get baited by a toxic player into saying a specific word, the system doesn’t care about context. It doesn’t care about intent. It just scans the text, triggers an automated flag, and locks you out of your account.
Worse yet, malicious players are actively weaponizing this system. It is incredibly easy for groups to mass-report an account to trigger an automatic penalty, leaving the victim completely powerless.
The biggest issue isn’t just that the bot makes mistakes—it’s that Sony completely blocks you from getting a human to look at it. If you get hit with a temporary suspension, Sony’s official policy is that it "cannot be appealed." Frontline customer service agents over the phone or live chat will flat-out tell you they don't have the tools to help or transfer you to the Safety Team. You are completely gatekept by a wall of text and a bot.
Human communication is rarely straightforward. Sarcasm, cultural context, self-defense against harassment, and friendly banter all exist in a gray area that an algorithm is fundamentally incapable of understanding. For a company as massive as Sony—one that controls billions of dollars of digital libraries that players have spent years paying for—relying on a black-box automated system without a human safety net is reckless and lazy.
If Sony wants to force us into an all-digital ecosystem where they control our access to our games, they have a responsibility to provide actual, human infrastructure to protect their paying customers. Automated flags should be the start of a review process, not the final judge and jury.
Has anyone else here successfully managed to get a human to review a wrongful temporary suspension, or is the system truly as brick-walled as it feels?
Edit: my post was removed by PSN subreddit because I had people agreeing
u/NochillSl — 10 days ago