Introducing DualSense, PS5's controller (Audio Jack Confirmed)
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I mean, its a product manager from playstation lol.
Why would they use 2.5 instead of their cooler 4.4 pentaconn 🤔Yep. A 2.5mm jack!
I know that RaD were predominantly a PS developer in the past but it's good to see 3rd party devs getting excited about it. Sounding like the haptics are really good.
Inb4 a lot of people saying everyone who was worried was being stupid.
Like come on guys it wasn't visible in the pictures. This wouldn't be the first product to remove a 3.5mm jack because the company making it had a vested interest selling more things that don't need one.
I'm guessing it's just a bit further below the curve, and just wasn't visible. What we see there is the mic. So they probably just moved it further away so as to not be right on the mic.
Like come on guys it wasn't visible in the pictures. This wouldn't be the first product to remove a 3.5mm jack because the company making it had a vested interest selling more things that don't need one.
I'm guessing it's just a bit further below the curve, and just wasn't visible. What we see there is the mic. So they probably just moved it further away so as to not be right on the mic.
i mean, do we know if that account is actually from a product manager?
Great news. Can't believe a certain poster was calling the idea of a headphone jack "stupid bullshit" in the other thread.
Hopefully PS5 will offer the same with their renewed focus on audio. Certainly Sony's app for the wireless Gold headset already provides this functionality, but nothing similar for the controller headphone jack.
Indeed, XBO already provides full EQ settings for the controller headphone jack via the Dolby Atmos for Headphones app.
Hopefully PS5 will offer the same with their renewed focus on audio. Certainly Sony's app for the wireless Gold headset already provides this functionality, but nothing similar for the controller headphone jack.
Yeah because the only reason people wanted a headphone jack was because of console wars 🙄
It's not new, I think it was Apple bullshit response about leaving audio jack behind ("it takes courage to do so").
Thats an subjective opinion that will never end. I prefer not having the asymmetrical sticks.
They are wireless. I want to connect them to the console directly.
Confirmed by the Playstation product manager
It's in the OP man..
Shu replied to his tweet of the controller announcement and replied with congratulations.
Decents
Desensitize
I don't like the words this word brings to mind. Too many weird abbreviations. It's not as strong as dualshock.
Ugh sorry I just really hate the name. It's not good. But I don't know why it bothers me so much lol!
Just look at his followed list. And this:
You could make materially new input states with the triggers which could be hard to map elegantly to the DS4. Imagine a travel arc on the trigger with multiple stop states that let the player modify their input on a certain weapon or on a golf club or the like. Would be hard to map that over to a single state trigger, without at least invoking visual cues (as in, for example, power meters in golf games etc). I think they want devs to be free to use those without worrying about fallbacks to normal triggers.
For PSVR and PS4 BC, of course it will support the DS4.
When I hold the grips on the PS4 controller, my thumbs naturally rest on the dpad and the buttons. I have to intentionally reach inward to hit the sticks. The things I need most often are the left stick and the buttons, so for the majority of the time I'm reaching in with one thumb but not the other. It causes asymmetrical thumb placement to be the position I need the most often while playing.
There's a photo with him and Yosp, if that isn't enough I don't know what is.
It's removing information which might be useful with no discernible benefit.
Making them coloured certainly isn't going to make it harder to use for colour blind people than white buttons.
For non-colour blind people it is far easier and quicker to distinguish between coloured buttons than it is to discern which button has which symbol.
It's the second one.
I can't wait for the inevitable "but does PS5 have a power supply?!" threads when it's not an explicit focus of the reveal.
That is Shu congratulating him on the announcement in a Japanese (trust me I'm an expert)
The thickboy front is almost 1:1 like Pro controller, which makes me believe it'll have better battery life than DS4.
As long as the majority of games use left joystick for movement, having them assymetrical is more comfortable since your thumbs rest in their natural position.
Yeah, that's how it works. Why is that uncomfortable though? I don't think I have super thumbs or anything, I'm sure your thumbs are just as opposable as mine. And don't play shooters on Xbox cause you'll end up doing the same thing since your right thumb's gonna mainly rest on the stick to control the camera.
I don't say you cannot create a case where DS4 would not work properly. But I guess it is likely that this will not be implemented by the majority of the games as a necessity as they are multiplat and again, I am quite sure you can disable that just as you can disable rumble in general which would then break these games.
Good points. For me as someone who's had every PS since the launch of the PS1 I can honestly say I've never given any notice to the colours on the face buttons. I've always gone by the symbols. Hell, I couldn't even tell you what any of the colours are!
Im pretty sure i use the left stick for movement and i prefer symmetrical sticks. 🤷♂️
Exactly, that's my point. Even Nintendo have moved on from the coloured buttons on their controllers. For design purposes or not, they've still done it
very very few people care to be upset that they didn't say it has one. They didn't mess up the reveal at all.
Both the D-pad, buttons and analog sticks are in what are natural resting positions for my thumbs on a DS4. Maybe they've been molded by 20 years of using DS controllers, but it's certainly not something I notice while playing.
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