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Official Sony add on for the controller to add Elite controller like back buttons. Bit weird for it so late in the generation IMO.
I’m betting this will be integrated into Dual Shock 5, which will also cost $69.99 since Nintendo showed you can get away with that price on Switch accessories.
The DS4 has been a relative bargain compared to what the others charge for the same, or lesser functionality for a while.
I have to admit, that’s really slick. Not just putting buttons, but putting an actual display showing what buttons they are emulating is pretty cool.
I assume that in the “PlayStation space” there are no plans for DS4 controllers to be compatible with the PS5?
Eh… it’s a pretty standard controller other than the touch pad. Nintendo does include all the motion controls inside their stuff as well as the IR camera in the JoyCons. Microsoft’s is the most basic of the three though.
I’m certainly not going to sit here and support raising peripheral prices. That’s madness.
Are there accessories that already attach to those ports on the bottom of the controller, and are they secured solidly enough not to suck? Sometimes I feel like marketing tosses the mechanical engineers out the window for these things.
I thought there were accessories for that too, but… well I clearly don’t own one so how much use are they getting?
Frankly, it’s hard to look at this announcement for a $30 peripheral that adds two buttons to an existing controller without thinking “yep, this is the same Sony that thought a $600 PS3 would go over well.”
Yeah, and they charge $50 each for them, or $80 as a set. Even the Pro controller is more expensive while lacking analog triggers.
It’s cheaper than spending $180 on an “elite” controller. It a pretty great price for a slick, optional device which by its nature is going to have a limited appeal. And it’s about the same price as Xbox was asking early this gen to add a rechargeable battery or a standard headphone jack to their controller (individually, not both).
In what kind of situations is a back button like that useful?
Whenever you would have to press the sticks.
It allows you to not take your thumb off the left stick to dodge or jump etc.
Especially press and hold plus moving the stick. Worse control scheme action ever made.
I could see extra buttons being useful for all seki-souls-borne games where you want to sprint, run and look at the same time.
If it also disabled L3/R3 on the sticks, that would be awesome
You can unmap buttons on the Xbox Elite, so in theory it certainly could.
I wonder if that’s possible. I know you can remap buttons at a system level on PS4, but disabling stick presses could also make them unavailable for remapping to the paddles since that all happens on device…
Actually, I just checked and the system remapping doesn’t let you disable a button completely anyway.
Year in review thingy:
Top 3:
84 - Project Highrise
59 - Dead by Daylight
50 - Dark Rose Valykrie
33 hours multiplayer
33 hours VR
8$ saved with PS+