Hm, I put 1000+ hours over four years into my first pro controller and then started to have drift. I ordered replacement parts and a new one. The new one has >300h on it so far and works just fine.
One big issue is I don't like the PS5 controller very much and neither the PS4 nor PS5 controllers have a dpad I can live with. The thing is that for some reason making official PS5 controllers seems hard. Nearly everything from Hori/8bitdo/RetroBit these days seems to have a Switch mode, but virtually none of their controllers support Playstation. There are just no options for a Saturn style dpad etc. I got a PS4 arcade stick but support on the PS5 depends on the software. But I have like half a dozen Switch compatible controllers. For those reasons I just don't play anything on PS4/5 that requires a good dpad.
Yep, I find myself going for comfort a lot these days. I notice that way too many controllers have stiff dpads where hitting the diagonals reliably requires quite a lot of force and I just don't want to play on them as it hurts my hands.
Lots of real bad ports on Switch, that's for sure. The stuff from M2 or NGDevTeam is quite good, usually just one frame extra over what you'd get Playstation.Fingolfin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:39 pm I uninstalled both all the Shitty Connection Psikyo ports and all of Capcom Arcade Stadium on Switch; when I play those exact game collections on PC it’s night and day how much better and less input laggy they are there (regardless of V-sync). Capcom Arcade Stadium is much better than Psikyo STGs on Switch but there’s still a big enough difference that I don’t ever want or need to play those on Switch again.
I spend an hour today playing the PS2 port of DOJ on a CRT and then BL on FinalBurn Neo on another CRT, and damn I have to say I just like the way that looks so much better than the M2 one on Switch + LCD. Tomorrow I'll bring my Switch down to a PC CRT and see how that stacks up The scanline options and scaling on the M2 port just aren't that great, nothing compared to the real thing or what something like a RetroTink could do.