How the NX Controller will work, and why you will like it.

[Normchacho]

ohmylanta1003 said:

KLAMarine said:
This can go straight to hell. I still don't believe this is from Nintendo itself but wherever it's from, it can go to hell.

"Since the sticks have motors to provide force, they can move the stick... but also NOT move it. IE, lock it in place"
Like servo motors? Yeah no, those can easily break. No rational engineer would use servo motors to try to counteract the force of a human thumb.

Thank you so much. I love you. I've been trying to explain this to people ever since we heard the rumor about motors in the controller and no one seems to get it. I won't go over my arguments again, but here they are...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=4#8

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=4#14

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=5#17

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=5#19

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=6#17

In short, I said exactly the same thing: the thumb would be able to produce way too much torque on a joystick to actually have motors in the controllers. If the joysticks are indeed nubs, then it's just silly to even have motors in there in the first place.

I would love to work at Nintendo as a mechanical engineer. That would be so sick. But I can't speak Japanese...T-T

I third this. There is just no way you would use a motor to try and hold something in place like that. The reliability would be amazingly poor even assuming the player didn't break it the first time they tried to move it while motor had it "locked".