{"id":460845,"date":"2025-12-20T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460845\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:41:17","slug":"you-can-buy-your-xbox-ally-an-official-pair-of-anti-drift-joysticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460845\/","title":{"rendered":"You can buy your Xbox Ally an official pair of anti-drift joysticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Even at $1,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/799698\/xbox-ally-x-review-asus-microsoft-full-screen-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Xbox Ally X handheld<\/a> didn\u2019t ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the $600 model. But for an extra <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0G4QW8798?th=1&amp;tag=theverge02-20\" target=\"_blank\">$20 at Amazon<\/a>, you can change that today \u2014 with officially Asus-approved and sanctioned TMR joysticks from Gulikit, the company that\u2019s made a name for itself by supplying aftermarket drift-resistant sticks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The company says it worked with Xbox Ally manufacturer Asus to create these sticks, that they\u2019ll be \u201cautomatically recognized\u201d when you swap them in, and that you can use the handheld\u2019s built-in Armoury Crate app to calibrate them afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">And while I haven\u2019t tried these ones (I do have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/31\/23571821\/nintendo-switch-joy-con-joystick-drift-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pair in my Switch<\/a>), I can confirm it\u2019s pretty easy to pop open the Xbox Ally to install. Just loosen the Philips-head screws, poke in a guitar pick pry tool to create a small gap, and pull a little harder than you think you need to pop open the clips. The joystick modules are right underneath. There\u2019s nothing blocking you \u2014 just pop a ribbon cable and undo their three screws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Here\u2019s the company\u2019s walkthrough in case you want to see for yourself \u2014 though I do not recommend taking sharp tweezers to ribbon cables when your fingernails can do that job safer and easier. (I may have broken a few ribbon cables in my life.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">When we\u2019re talking about TMR or the older and slightly less power-efficient Hall effect joystick technology, I usually write \u201cdrift-resistant\u201d instead of \u201cdrift-free\u201d because you may find your center point drifting over time \u2014 but the beauty of magnetic is you just have to recalibrate! Unlike the potentiometer joysticks that ship with Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, and Microsoft Xbox controllers, you\u2019re not scraping away material that\u2019ll lead to permanent drift as you use the magnetic versions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Gulikit\u2019s new Xbox Ally sticks are <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0G4QW8798?th=1&amp;tag=theverge02-20\" target=\"_blank\">$20 in the US today<\/a>, and should also be available in the UK for \u00a320, and in Italy, France, and Spain for \u20ac22, this January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even at $1,000, the Xbox Ally X handheld didn\u2019t ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[705,393,50,9597,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-460845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pc-gaming","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115754073255620332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}