Nice change. But it’s probably because of the EU making it mandatory more than Sony being good guys.
These days, any time a corpo is doing something cool, I always assume it is because of a new EU regulation.
God I hope so. My DS5 battery died within a year. It literally loses a full charge overnight, and even when it still worked it only reported battery percentage in 12% increments. My still-chargeable DS4 was still accurate to the 1%.
I still use the DS5 wired because screw e-waste, and ergonomically it’s adequate. But the battery problem makes it the worst controller Sony’s ever made, and I’m including SIXAXIS in that assessment.
Actually scratch that, the face buttons are mushy as hell and there’s nowhere to rest your thumb. I miss jump inputs like I’ve never played a video game before. None of the every single generation of Dualshocks I’ve used had such sloppy buttons.
You mean easier to remove? The battery is already removable. It’s not glued or soldered in place. But you do need a spatula thingy to open the shell of the controller and actually get to it.
The term “removable battery” typically means there’s no disassembly required. Or at least nothing any more complicated than a battery cover. As much as it’s an easy process for those with even minor mechanical skills, your initial wording creates the sort of slippery slope that led to us needing a government to step in so that phones and other devices would have removable batteries again.
If you can charge it outside of the controller than this opens up the possibility to have multiple batteries which you can swap between. I don’t think that is the case going by the article, however.
In all my many years of gaming and superfluous amount of controllers, I’ve rarely had problems with a Sony internal battery. When I have, I simply opened up the controller and replaced it (mind you I needed to source the battery). But its never been an issue and a fairly easy process.
The controllers I’ve always had any kind of issue with ensuring I had charged and/or replacement batteries has been Xbox controllers.
I only know up to the 360, which had the battery casing on the outside you could easily remove with a clip latch. But it also had notoriously bad power issues, not iust with the controllers but the console itself. Faults in the PSU and overheating were the two most common causes of the infamous RROD.
About damned time. I stopped using these because the battery life is awful
OH this is exciting. That’s one of my favorite parts about the Xbox controller
