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Its not that i disagree with you, they should have used them and its pretty bad ( though a lot can be fixed with some good old wd40 for electronics lol)

However, its not a few cents more. Its way way more. A regular stick is around 1.84 - 2.73 euro a piece depending on how many you order from official components store. A hal sensor stick is often 2-4 euro.

Lets say 150mil switches are sold, each having 2 sticks. 150,000,000 * 0.40 = 60mil difference in cost for the company, at least, for using different sticks. And thats just sticks that come with the console, not separately sold controllers or pro controllers.

Manufacturing cost is very different than just ‘its a few cents more’.

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30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And a switch costs, MSRP, ~300€/$. So they just got 45,000,000,000, 45 billion dollars. Or, in other words: They could raise the MSRP by 6$. Which would be justified for a then better product.

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- EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They are never going to sell a product like that for €306 or whatever. They’d probably bump it up to €349 in that case
  
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SparrowHawk@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Manufacturing also gets cheaper when scaled

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- CHKMRK@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  But this applies to both sticks, so the relative price difference would still stay roughly the same
  
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Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I hope you’re joking. They’re already selling a product with a BOM of $20 at most for 70-90 monetary units. They can absolutely afford a few cents more

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- CallateCoyote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  8bitdo sells a fantastic controller that does everything the Switch Pro controller does besides gyro for $25. It has hall-effect sticks, hall effect triggers and a much better d-pad. It really sickens me how greedy the console manufacturers have gotten with controller prices.
  
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- Burnoutdv@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Nu nu, it would be way more expensive, have you thought about all the not sold controllers with incredible markup due the stick not drifting? I not saying that it is planned obsolescence but it really quacks like a duck
  
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- DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Im not saying i disagree, im saying its more complex than “just a few cents”.
  
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  - Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’m disagreeing. It’s really that simple. 60mil fewer dollars from 1 billion in revenue over 8 years (these are your numbers) is still “just a few cents”
    
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