Controller d-pad gets "stiff"?

Hi,

Recently bought myself a second 360 controller, and there's been something that has bothered me ever since I started using it...

Sometimes, the directional pad below the left analog stick will sometimes "stiffen" to the point where it won't press correctly, but this only happens on certain directions. I look down at the controller to see what might be wrong, and I see that the d-pad has gone totally off-centered and is brushing up against the d-pad's housing.

Mind you, this is a new unused controller. I've had this problem with the controller that came with my 360 as well, so I don't think it has anything to do with it being new or a possible defect. It seems if a certain direction is pressed frequently on the pad, it off centers in that general direction, causing it to stiffen up and becomes very hard to press. Not impossible, but it may take two presses to get it to register one.

I was just wondering if this was a common thing with 360 controllers, like has anyone else had this happen to them? Is there a fix for it? Or is it just bad design and nothing can be done about it?

Hi,

Recently bought myself a second 360 controller, and there's been something that has bothered me ever since I started using it...

Sometimes, the directional pad below the left analog stick will sometimes "stiffen" to the point where it won't press correctly, but this only happens on certain directions. I look down at the controller to see what might be wrong, and I see that the d-pad has gone totally off-centered and is brushing up against the d-pad's housing.

Mind you, this is a new unused controller. I've had this problem with the controller that came with my 360 as well, so I don't think it has anything to do with it being new or a possible defect. It seems if a certain direction is pressed frequently on the pad, it off centers in that general direction, causing it to stiffen up and becomes very hard to press. Not impossible, but it may take two presses to get it to register one.

I was just wondering if this was a common thing with 360 controllers, like has anyone else had this happen to them? Is there a fix for it? Or is it just bad design and nothing can be done about it?

Starbound571

It's a design flaw. Yes even the d-pad on the controller has been disigned wrong. I can never play MK or DOA4 with that junky thing :(

Damn it all - and here I was thinking I just got a bad batch.

Thanks for confirming.

I hate the DPAD on the 360 controller. Ive always been heavily into fighting games and i prefer to use a dpad. I think they should design a controller with the dpad switched with the analog stick, and also have a 4 button dpad rather than one that rotates on an analog anyway.

so basically.... a playstation controller