Don’t pay Microsoft for stick drift on the new Xbox Nano controller
This weekend a friend of mine told me she’s playing through The Witcher 3 again, as soon as she could get a new controller, as her Xbox model had succumbed to the dreaded analog stick drift problem. She asked me to recommend a new one, and I heartily suggested a budget 8BitDo option I’d bought for myself. “It has Hall effect sticks,” I said, “so it shouldn’t ever have that problem.” “Aren’t first-party controllers always better?” she asked. I explained that that’s the prevailing wisdom, but Micr

































