Bottom one looks nicer, but Gamesir has better build quality in my experience.

I had an 8bitdo and loved it so I bought a second one as a backup. 4 months later the first one got drift so I opened the second one. Within a week of using the second one the X button (Xbox layout) was malfunctioning. I was trying to play Battlefield and I was arming an objective so you have to hold down X, and it would just stop arming randomly. And being as 4 months had past it was beyond the 30 day return period.

To be fair this was a couple years ago, and I know 8bitdo is using Hall Effect sticks in a lot of their controllers so drift might not be much of an issue any more. But I have 4 Gamesir controllers (2 for Xbox, 2 for PC) and all of them still work perfectly. I wouldn't buy/use a controller without the back buttons any more, I map the sprint function to back left rather than clicking the stick down in any games that require stick clicks.

The default Series X controllers were absolute garbage for me. I went through 4 in the first year I had the console, and I only kept getting them because MS would replace them for a year after buying the console, at least back then. Three of them got drift, one had RB stop working. No comment on their Elite controllers as I've never had one. PS4 controllers were very reliable for me, although I had a friend who went through a lot of those.

I firmly believe stick drift is a skill issue. I've only ever had stick drift once in my gaming life srs. Once I broke a trigger on a PS4 controller, but pretty much never had any issues with any controllers

I know a few people that have never got it either, but I know a few others that have had it happen over a dozen times lol

I firmly believe stick drift is a skill issue. I've only ever had stick drift once in my gaming life srs. Once I broke a trigger on a PS4 controller, but pretty much never had any issues with any controllers

I know a few people that have never got it either, but I know a few others that have had it happen over a dozen times lol

It's not lol. It probably depends on the types of games you play though. I play a lot of FPS so having to start and stop sprinting constantly wears them down, which you need to do to play at a high level. Hell some of them even got drift when I mapped that to the extra back button, but those were shitty third party Power A controllers I expect them to be poor quality.

It speaks volumes that I had way more playtime on FPS games on PS4 and only got very minor drift once in 8 years of heavy playtime with those controllers, then suddenly started going through the Xbox ones like water when I got a Series X. The more they start implementing Hall effect and TMR sticks I'd be more willing to try other brands and if Xbox did it on an official controller I'd try it. But I'd still be leery.

Also Power A makes a $100 pro controller now. I realize most of their stuff is supposed to be cheap but I don't really want to spend $100 on anything from them lol.

The only time I got stick drift was from my PS2 controller after using it multiple hours a day multiple days per week for years straight.

And even then, it wasn't drift, it would just get stuck and not return to normal, I probably just needed to clean it good but I bought a new one instead.

I'm telling you it is lol, some people play more aggressive with their controller imo. I have had a 1.5 k.d to 3 k/d on various FPS games over the last 20 years. Some of my 360, PS4, Xbox and PS5 controllers have a few thousands of hours on them each with no issues srs. I'm lvl 1000 or master prestige on pretty much every Black Ops game.

Never had an issue with any Xbox controller



It's how someone uses their controller imo. Just too aggressive with their thumb sticks, triggers etc. I do take care of my controllers, clean them, dust them etc which probably helps for longevity

Use is part of it, but some games require more demanding use. Any game like a fast paced FPS that requires you to use the stick click to go in and out of sprint constantly is going to wear down that stick. This is likely why I got drift exclusively in the left stick.

That said, again I played way more in FPS games on PS4 (2000 hrs in BF4, 800 hrs in BF1, 1000 hrs in MW2019, 300 hrs in COD WW2) and only my first controller on that console got drift and it was very minor. After I replaced that in 2015 none of my PS4 controllers went bad even under heavy use and they still work perfectly today.

I take care of mine as well, regular cleaning and I don't eat while using them or throw them like some people do. Maybe you just got lucky. I know my friend had the opposite luck as me, he went through 6 PS4 controllers yet hasn't had a single Xbox SX controller go bad. I'm assuming quality control is inconsistent.