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human
ELI5: What is different with the plastic on knock off products that makes it feel 'cheap' I. E. 3rd party game controllers? Is it lighter? Thinner? A worse quality type of plastic? Less smooth? How difficult is it to make 'good' plastic?
gpt
First parties do actually put in a LOT of work in feel. Source - work on a game platform, brought up a new controller right from the proto phase. Our industrial design team spent a significant amount of time just on plastic finish. Even more on rumbler weight distribution at movement and rest. Our early protos felt significantly worse. With most 1p products, there's probably a lot more time and people working on it than you might think. Even for really small, seemingly insignificant details.