Drift issue suggestion

I just got myself a DualSense Edge, so hopefully I don’t personally have to deal with this again, but I feel compelled to suggest an improvement for the sake of others who may be still annoyed daily with drift on the PS5 or any platform where drift is a non-negligible issue.

Can the developers not make it so changing your party members is just not possible when in battle, instead of forcing complete stillness before accessing the team comp menu?

The number of times I simply tried to change team deployment even in the safety of town, only to be interrupted by random drift of the left stick, was nearly intolerably annoying, and probably doesn’t need to be. I had three DualSense controllers, all treated exactly the same as I have all my other controllers (gently) since I started gaming 35 years ago, but these things are relentlessly unreliable and new controllers are expensive these days.

I can’t be the only person that has had this issue, can I? Haha

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GettingWokeUp2026-01-18 14:49

I don’t know if you know this but usually you can send your controller in to Sony and they’ll fix it for free. They definitely will if you have the receipt but I didn’t and I just said I lost it and they still fixed it. It takes about two weeks.

Virtual-Thought-25572026-01-18 14:52

Problem is they usually work fine until they are just out of warranty, so I just assumed I wouldn’t be able to get that service. I would actually love to get the new Genshin themed controller, but now no longer trust the regular DualSense enough to spend another 11,000+ yen on one just to have to deal with issues in a couple months again :(

GettingWokeUp2026-01-18 14:55

It’s not a warranty thing. That type of malfunction is just something they fix as long as the controller hasn’t been altered. Unless it’s older than like 2 years old then maybe not.

Also if they fix that stick drift, you’ll never get it again

Virtual-Thought-25572026-01-18 15:40

I think this is gonna depend a lot on your region as well. I live in Japan, so I will have to look it up here but at this point some of them are more than 2 years old.

kazuyaminegishi2026-01-18 14:53

I should probably do this. My controller's drift has been getting worse. Do you just email support?

GettingWokeUp2026-01-18 14:54

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/accessories/

Sabishi19852026-01-18 15:08

I'm usually playing the game on PC while using a controller, and even I am running into drift issues despite the fact, that my controller doesn't act up in other games.

The only thing that actually helps every single time is booting up the game and spin both sticks around a couple of times. No idea why, but that fixes the issue entirely for that gaming session. Guess this simply counts as 'Teyvat has its own rules'. 😅

Virtual-Thought-25572026-01-18 15:43

Rules of Teyvat haha

But yeah, my suggestion was more made in the vein of “why does this idle period requirement even exist at all?” I assume just to make sure you aren’t changing teams mid-combat, but they clearly already don’t allow you to do certain other things mid-combat, so it just seems like my suggestion is a simple fix to a problem that I assume others like you and I experience.