Its been 4 weeks now since I've been playing any video games cause I've been in Spain for vacation, but now that I'm back and was going to do some serious gaming, the analog stick of all my playstation controllers in the entire house (8 that is), have turned into a sticky, oily mess. When i left i made sure to put them all into a shelf so they wouldn't malfunction because of dust, but now the analog sticks have got a layer of a some sort of oil and when iuse it, it get all sticky. This is actually very disgusting. Have you ever experienced this thing?
Looks like they may have gotten too warm and the poly melted some or something - I've seen that happen before.
Easiest solution I know of is to go to your local game store and pick up what are called "gel Tabz" I think they're made by MadCatz. They are gel covers with grippy nubs on them that go over your analog stick tops and give your thumbs better traction. They really are comfortable too. Around $5 a pair here in the US - not sure where you are.
Here's a link - the ones I have look different than the ones in the link but they'll give you the idea:
I haven't touched my PS3 for a week, on account of me buying a DS for Pokemon last week (man that was embarrasing, I was twice as tall as anyone else in the store, not counting parents buying for kids), just went online to check the store and I have the exact same problem, it seems after you thumb them around for a bit they dry up though, so it's all good
I think its just grease and sweat from your hands. When I got a new controller the analog sticks felt different so I looked at the old controller and saw the grease on the analog sticks which must of been building for years but I never noted it before.
I think its just grease and sweat from your hands. When I got a new controller the analog sticks felt different so I looked at the old controller and saw the grease on the analog sticks which must of been building for years but I never noted it before.monkeycheater
Then why did it only happen after I'd left my controller on it's tod for a week?
[QUOTE="monkeycheater"]I think its just grease and sweat from your hands. When I got a new controller the analog sticks felt different so I looked at the old controller and saw the grease on the analog sticks which must of been building for years but I never noted it before.814StopsToday
Then why did it only happen after I'd left my controller on it's tod for a week?
Well I didn't realize I had grease on my analog sticks until after I got a new controller, so I never realized for years. So maybe when you only realized it when you came back to it after a week.
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