Different controller color = Different feel?

[Gravitirax]

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but different colors of controllers seem to feel different. Maybe it's just the amount of use, but I've noticed that black controllers tend to feel a bit more smooth while white seems to have a slightly more rough / grainy surface texture. I haven't used any other colors since around 2006, so I can't say what they're like.

 

[Varist]

just because you used white and black in your example, I would say that has more to do with the fact that white controllers are a completely different beast from the old plat/black/indigo set. So it isn't "different colors have different feels", it's more like "white has a different feel than all the other colors"

I agree that the white controllers have a different texture and that's probably because they must have used some kind of different casing or different surface paint for the new white controllers.

 

[WHA?]

just because you used white and black in your example, I would say that has more to do with the fact that white controllers are a completely different beast from the old plat/black/indigo set

Any info on those?
never tried one, i know cord is longer

easier to wear in?
besides having different mechanisms inside, are their feel superior to the old ones? (not just outer eel, but gameplay feel)
More responsive when playing melee?

 

[Varist]

The left-right movements on the analog are inherently different for white controllers. I've used the old blacks, plats and indigos for years and years and the first time I put my hands on a white controller and tried playing Melee with it I noticed how much more quickly the analog snaps back to neutral position. In fact it snaps back so fast I had problems with jump, flick a direction to reverse my B type moves like sh laser for example. I'm sure that problem lessens with breaking in and stuff. It also makes you character turn differently, you start runs differently. I've tried multiple brand new white controllers and slightly used white controllers and they all have strange left-right qualities.

But you see top players using these controllers and their tech seems fine so it's a "getting used to it" kind of issue. The shoulder triggers might have variance but that's honestly so hard to discern because every controller has a different trigger feel.

 

[the_CAM_factor]

white controllers shoulder buttons always break

 

[Gravitirax]

white controllers shoulder buttons always break

Huh... Does that include the Z button? I was thinking of getting a white controller once my black one wears out but I'm an avid Z user.