I think people are missing the bigger story of Sony revealing a few hardware devices at the end of this month ?
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Tom Henderson : Sony is working on an official new PlayStation 5 "Pro" controller
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This. If it has the same god awful battery life of my DS controller I'm not paying 200 or whatever for paddles and trigger stops. I'll use a wired third party one with back buttons for a fraction of the price.
this is interesting, didn't know SCUF patented this shit. so they are fine with it being on the Elite but don't want OEMs to make controllers with back paddles to ship with the console en masse?
Finally! Long overdue. Sucks having to choose between consoles and one factor is back paddles on Xbox vs. haptics on PS5
This. When It was first announced I thought Sony was being cheap, but once I used it, I feel in love with it. I don't really care about any other features aside from the paddles. I also have an Xbox elite 2 controller and I hate it. It's big, heavy and clunky and was waaay too expensive.
Still looking forward to it though.
Tom mentioned a few days ago that it isn't anything major
MS presumably licenses it from SCUF, which is part of the price premium for an Elite.
They're fine with whatever as long as they get paid. IIRC Xbox pays SCUF for the back paddles on the Elite. However, Sony or Microsoft probably won't pay them for every single controller that they ship.
Been seeing those high quality headsets lately, and I agree. However, I would take an adapter to make the Sony WH-1000XM5 lower latency with the PS5.
Most likely MS is paying them for that patent, or has some other deal with them [patent sharing, fees reduction, etc.].
Yeah, this is interesting. Maybe a new Pulse as headset as well? I hope we get more 3rd-party controllers to, like fightsticks.
that would work well too, I bought the BeoPlay Headset recently because I wanted something more high end its really good dont need to have it loud and voices are crystal clear and like no dropouts. Wouldve paid just as much for a sony version that did that.
I hope they have something like the Xbox Adaptive Controller. I know that device has helped a lot of people
My friends will be happy, the Astro one for PS4 was pretty much unavailable here and they go through SCUF controllers like candy, so I'm sure they'll happily jump off that train.
Presumably one will be a charging station that is compatible with the new controller and maybe an improved headset?
Not a pro console nor do I expect it to be PSVR2, which will be it's own launch event. No idea, maybe a higher end gaming headset? Also, what does "significant software" upgrades mean in the context of a controller.
Yeah I already have XM4's, would be nice to release a WiFi adapter to reduce latency.
They can be pretty much any button you want in a much more convenient place. So say you have X for jump, you can have a paddle for it instead, keeping your fingers on the sticks.
Very popular with people who like playing competitive and just really nice to have if not.
they're not removing the analog sticks
the controller will likely come with multiple analog sticks of different sizes and they'll be replaceable based on your preference
As someone who was an Xbox player last gen...I prefer it? Not sure why but it feels better for me a s makes the d pad actually useable rather than an annoyance. Only started playing 2D games again with the d pad since getting a PS4 late in the gen and swapping my Xbox pad for Dualshock on PC.
