Dallinor on 05 May 2008
| Sky Render said: You know, Sony never has been very good at designing controllers to last... Over the years, I've had about 4 DualShock controllers and 6 DualShock 2 controllers, and of them, 1 DualShock and 3 DualShock 2 still work. A few of them failed on me the moment I took them apart to try to repair them, which may not seem that odd to some, but it's not a sign of a well-built controller at all when simply unscrewing the backings to do basic repairs can make it fail. By contrast, when I took apart a Psyclone wireless PS2 controller of mine and swapped its X button with the X button from my damaged second Psyclone controller (a battery leak killed that one; stupid faulty AAA batteries), it works precisely as well as it had before I took it apart when I reassembled it. Better, in fact, since X no longer sticks now. |
I think it depends somewhat on your luck. Both my Sega Mega Drive and PS1 Dualshock controllers still work fine.
Yet one of my Dualshock 2 controllers, 2 Xbox controllers and 4 computer mice have all broken on me.
