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D_Harris:
Just to clarify, I'm a classic gamer and prefer leaf switches on my buttons and joysticks.

Too bad no one is producing leaf switch joysticks.   :(

The original selling point for micro switches were that they were to new thing and wouldn't suffer from the need to continually tweak them like like the leaf switches. And they are so much cheaper. Of course, all this was misleading.

Has anyone really though to attempt an in depth assessment of maintenance and replacement costs of leafs vs. micros. (We already know which one feels better).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Blanka:
The third option is Japanese buttons. Fast, silent, with a close-to-leaf feel and micro-switch-low-maintenance. Heck they invented bloody fast button pressing games!
D_Harris:

--- Quote from: Blanka on January 23, 2011, 02:10:17 am ---The third option is Japanese buttons. Fast, silent, with a close-to-leaf feel and micro-switch-low-maintenance. Heck they invented bloody fast button pressing games!

--- End quote ---

But from what I know those buttons don't last when being used by heavy handed Americans.  ;D

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
bitbytebit:
I am new to looking at this leaf switch vs. micro issue.  I'm just wondering why they aren't producing leaf switches at all anymore.  They look pretty simple, seem like just two pieces of metal that touch, real simple and can't see why they are so rare.  Seems a lot simpler than the microswitch to me, would think someone could somewhat manufacture leaf switches and sell them on their own.  Wouldn't it be just plastic molding and holding the two metal contact parts within that?  I might be missing something, I'm not familiar with the history of it, just seems odd these are 'phased out' and it's so hard to just find a joystick using them or the buttons using them.  Aren't the buttons available though, or are the ones I'm seeing new not the same as the older ones? 

Does anyone have recommendations on the best leaf switch buttons, where to get them from new?  I got the groovy game gear micro leaf switches and those are many times better to me than the plain zippy switches I had, which one wore out after a couple months already so I got the microleaf and couldn't believe how much better and responsive they are.  So I'm guessing the leaf switches might just add to that continuum of improvement I have seen and be even better, at least I'm hoping.  I know that I just bought 2 wico leaf nos joysticks and just today got them, and first thing I can see is they just feel amazingly different than a micro switch joystick.  So I just don't see why someone isn't capitalizing off of that fact.
D_Harris:
From what I can tell the original sales pitch convinced the market that micro switches were better because they were cheaper and ops didn't have to keep adjusting them. (Of course they didn't give gamers who preferred the feel of leafs a say).

So now the game owners who buy most of the switches are convinced that micro switches are less trouble.

Is this true when you take everything into consideration? That's a good question, and the reason I said that an in depth assessment needs to be done to determine if in the long run micro switches are really less trouble and cheaper.

And then the next step would be re-convincing the market.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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