| Dante9 said: Whaaat, how does that happen? I have gone through Playstations 1-5 and never has a controller cell died on me. To be fair, I always use two controllers so that one is always charged up and ready to go, because sometimes I game for like 15 hours a day. But I haven't even noticed a shortening of the battery life, let alone complete failure. |
All batteries have a finite cycle.
Lithium-Ion Polymer or LiPO cells typically have a lifespan of about 5 years and 500-1000 charge cycles depending on use, battery quality, temperatures and more.
Playstation 1-2 typically did not have lithium cells, so I am not surprised they haven't died on you.
Early PS3 controllers are reaching 15 years of age and are failing.
Many PS4 controllers are the same.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/57rrvu/ps4_controller_not_keeping_charge/
It's not super super common like drift, but the older they get, the more likely it's going to occur, not a matter of "if" but literally "when". - Then they need to live a cabled life.
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