Would you say that the component shortages and delays experienced at the start of this console generation are gone now? The situation is much easier now than it was one year ago. That doesn’t mean we can’t have a shortage, but we have security to provide enough products to the market right now [and] for the Christmas season. So that’s quite good. We hope. We don’t know - if there is a big success, maybe we will have a shortage - but that’s the sort of shortage we’d want.
our solutions. That’s led to us using new technology like Hall Effect sticks to avoid joystick drift, and to increase the lifetime of the controller, which is also something we need to think about. We also offer spare parts to our gamer base, if they need repairs. We have
nacon.com so that everybody
can talk to us directly. We have a consumer services team in Europe and the US. A very strong one. We are listening. It’s very important for us to understand and to improve all the time.
Do you think that having asymmetrical sticks makes it easier for Xbox players to jump into the PlayStation ecosystem? That’s a tricky question. No, I don’t think so. Well, yes, and no. The first time we went to Sony and showed them an asymmetrical controller, I said ‘Most core gamers prefer to play with an asymmetrical [controller] like Xbox’ and they told us ‘We know, you’ve got the licence.’ But of course, Sony’s fanbase loves the symmetrical sticks because they’ve been playing for ages on PlayStation consoles. It gives us a very good alternative as some people like playing not only on PlayStation or Xbox or PC, but anywhere. So that’s why we have PC compatibility with our peripherals.
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What are some of the key areas where you hope to expand and improve in the next couple of years? Well, we already have a lot of ideas in mind and we are already checking on some different areas in the next coming months. I’m sure you will be very surprised by what we propose.
Will see-through or ‘Atomic Purple’ controllers ever be cool again? We can’t do that, because if you open our controller, there is no space to do cosmetic things. It’s purely a piece of technology. We need to keep the vibration motors, and need to keep the balance with extra weight added. Everything is full. It’s too packed with power for cosmetics. We need to investigate what people want. We’re
launching with the Triple Black Edition and the Black and White Edition controllers. We predicted we’d need 60% of the white and 40% of the black ... but we started our pre-sales recently, and it turns out people want the opposite. So people want to buy 60% in black and 40% in white.
So, no RoboCop chrome model at launch then? That’s a great idea! We’ll see what we can do.
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