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guest_
· 5 years ago
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Why do people always call shit I never asked for a feature? A DualShock 4 from Sony has an MSRP of $14 more than an Xbox one wireless controller. I own rechargeable AA batteries- I’m fine with saving $14 on a controller that doesn’t have a battery pack- and I can swap batteries quickly and easily whenever I don’t want to play tethered or wait for a controller to charge. In a real pinch I can even just go to any store or gas station and get more batteries.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
So did they “catch up”? I don’t know about that. In the grand scheme of life I don’t think it really matters that much wetter the battery packs are internal or not. What’s the advantage to the consumer? It cuts manufacturing costs over a controller with a removal pack that can run on consumer batteries sure- and makes it so you now have to use their cells or find something that works instead of just going to the store. To each their own. PS is awesome and so is Xbox. I can’t say that would ever be the deciding factor for me between two systems is wether they pre installed the batteries.
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atreinero
· 5 years ago
Oh brother. There are so many ways around it. Buy the official charge and play kit; rechargeable batteries, just buy batteries. The internal battery isn't a feature it is a hindrance. What happens when that battery starts to die? You have to buy a new dualshock. Xbox controller? Oh I guess I need a new battery pack/batteries. It's about choice, and Xbox gets it while Sony doesn't. Not to mention a dualshock is way more fragile than an xbox controller. I've thrown controllers. Dualshocks, both 3 and 4, break easily. I've thrown the same 360 controller 4 times, still works. My Xbox One controller has gone through a lot, and it still works fine. I'm on my third dualshock 4 and the last one all it did was sit in the same spot. I took it out twice and it just died. The PS4 is a good console, but Sony needs to work on building a better controller.
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