It seems the drifting is caused by cheap plastic parts inside the stick's motion module

Was a great controller out of the box, but the bumpers are made of cheap, thin plastic and constantly break.

While the outside of the controller is made with great materials and ingenuity, they made the triggers and the inside out of nothing but the cheapest parts i.e., plastic.

Back to the lighter, tougher, cheaper plastic ones for me.

It does not feel like cheap plastic

I would say I'm pretty rough on my controllers, not to the point of throwing or anything but enough to feel how weak the plastic on a normal controller is

I love this controller, but there's a major flaw that makes me caution new buyers - the bumpers are made of cheap plastic and will break after regular use

The controller, though it feels great, is made with shoddy plastic parts

I take it apart to replace it to see it's made from cheap plastic

The inside of this controller is almost exactly the same as the 50$ normal option, the tiny plastic sticks holding the domes on and the super cheap plastics used for the bumpers

The inside of this controller is almost exactly the same as the 50$ normal option, the tiny plastic sticks holding the domes on and the super cheap plastics used for the bumpers

The plastic connecting the bumpers inside the controller will break constantly (I've gone through at least 3 different replacement bumpers, and I'm gentle

drift on the left thumbstick...and for its lofty price, it is made with cheap plastic components

The bumpers are made of cheap, I mean really fragile cheap, plastic.

I bought and replaced them myself, maybe not everything should be made of cheap plastic Microsoft

I understand the housing/casing being made out of plastic but a long (relative) mechanic piece being made from cheap plastic.. for $150

Version 2 (the elite controller and the headphone jack versions) feature the floating design where the bumpers are only held in place by a small piece of flimsy plastic that runs underneath the jewel button

Apparently microsoft used cheap plastic domes that are notorious for cracking in these controllers.

, the scuff feels like cheap plastic, mine broke way to easy, I don't throw my controllers or take my anger out on them, but this controller is well made alittle heavier than a normal

I would completely avoid this until they at least start using a better plastic on RB & LB, the rest of the problems seem to be QA/QC and not engineering related.

The bumpers look fancy but are made out of cheap plastic

This has been absolutely worth the origina $150 purchase price, and a vast majority of the controller is made of very sturdy metal and plastic

Back to the lighter, tougher, cheaper plastic ones for me.

Can't find any aftermarket parts made of metal to replace them with, only the same cheap plastic bumpers.

The cheap plastic broke off internally so there is no fixing it without super glue

The hard/cheap plastic that the bumpers themselves are made of, specifically.

The feel of the elite is great, the paddles are awesome, the look is exceptional, and the updated mic jack is brilliant, but it seems as if they still use the same cheap plastic wishbone bumper design where repetitive use will result in part failure no matter how delicate you are.

The bumpers broke within 5 months because of the cheap plastic used for them.

a quick online search shows this is a very very common occurrence because the mechanism is made out of a flexing piece of very shoddy plastic that likes to snap suddenly.

I'm a little miffed that my only options are to either stop using the controller and go back to a standard one because there's unfinished plastic underneath the elite's grips or spend $150-$200 on a whole new controller because Microsoft doesn't offer replacement grips or any kind of maintenance on this "premium" product when the issue is cheap glue, yet they expect customers to shell out a ton of money on a new controller when something like this occurs

The bumpers on these controllers and the Elite are the same and are actually one piece of cheap plastic

its a cheap plastic bracket that has way too much stress (without springs) to support wear/tear.

This controller cost 150 dollars and boast "stainless steel" parts but still uses the same cheap plastic parts around the joystick as the basic controllers

I had to use Sugru to mold new rubber, otherwise I would have been left with slick plastic around my palms during gaming, which is unacceptable since most of those who buy these types of controllers are FPS players

When I purchased mine a while back, it was the only premium offering that wasn't the hard plastic

Great controller in the beginning, but the L and R buttons are cheap

Other times it works as it's supposed to and goes right.

The Right Bumper broke as

I'd gladly recommend this to anyone looking for a great controller to use, but I'd just warn them that it may not hold up for as long as they'd like.

Nothing is broken and everything works as it should.

For the price of this controller, it fails in multiple ways!!!LB just broke as it has for many customers

Like new condition,synced perfect without any trouble to my xbox one s,came a day early, (so very fast shipping)no complaints and would recommend this seller to a friend for sure if they were interested in an xbox elite controller.

n’t work on other controllers

Let me see if i get what i am reading, i was planing to buy this controller, but it seems to break easy aftet a few month of use regarles of level of use that does not sound like a high end controller, and a 90 day warranty tells me that even the company dont have confedent the controller is going to last, i was a hardcore gamer both on xbox 360 and ps3, but move to pc, now i pike to pkay exclusives, so i want to get me a xbox one and ps4, with the high end controllers, i had my xbox 360 for about 10 years and it works fine, the controllers are very well made to last, to the point that i but a new shell for running over my wife pink controller with my car, well i but the sheel and fix some of the bent joysitck parts and works lile new, so how in yhe world a 150 dollars controller breaks in 3 to 8 months with only a 90 days warranty