Steam Deck user interface designer Lawrence Yang said the drift that players noticed was actually a deadband tolerance issue, and the developers accidentally narrowed the deadband range in the previous firmware version, causing the system to respond to jitter that should have been ignored. reaction.
However, users still have doubts about this explanation, worrying that Valve secretly expands the scope of the dead zone, causing the game to fail to respond to delicate displacement operations.
Steam Deck hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat claimed in an interview last year that the company did its best to avoid drifting, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the old Switch. The latter’s handle drift problem has attracted the attention of EU consumer organizations, and even some customers have launched a class-action lawsuit.
Since the joystick is a mechanical moving part, there is always a day when it drifts or even fails. The Steam Deck is designed with replacement in mind, and the joystick can be replaced as a separate component. And the company cooperated with iFixit, a well-known dismantling agency, and authorized the latter to provide original parts.
Also, the Intellivision Amico crowdfunded game console, which tried to revive the 1980s consoles with modern, low-power processors, is likely to fail. Regulators have drawn investors’ attention to Intellivision’s “significant debt” and that without a capital injection, Intellivision will be unsustainable by July.
Intellivision previously launched a new round of crowdfunding for the Amico project, with a goal of $5 million. After 21 days, the event attracted only 54 investors, and the crowdfunding amount was only $58,001.
Gaming musician Tommy Tallarico bought Intellivision in 2017, and the following year announced a reboot of the Intellivision console, which sold 3 million units in the 1980s.
Intellivision was later renamed “Amico” and was originally planned to be launched in December 2020, but was delayed repeatedly due to the epidemic and supply chain issues.