PlayStation 5 - Answering Your Questions On Compatible PS4 Peripherals & Accessories

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

Jranation said:

More options the better. For the Switch you have to get this USB thing called 8bitdo so you can use a Wii U pro controller. It works perfectly fine for games that is not fully gyroscope or motion games. I can see a similar thirdparty item to work for the PS5. 

What Microsoft has done to the Xbox one controllers being compatible to XSX is very consumer friendly. I dont know why anyone would not want this option. 

Lol... consumer-friendly....

I don't think its that anyone doesn't or wouldn't want the option. It's more like those of us that are ok with it understand why it's necessary. If there was absolutely no "technical" difference between the DS4 and the DS controller, as is the case with the new XSX controller vs the XB1 controller, then I would be up in arms as to why a perfectly working and identical controller isn't being supported by the new hardware.

But that's not the case, there are things that the new controller can do that the old one simply can not. And if you want those things to become widely supported on the PS5, you have to kill support for the older controller.

It would have been "anti-consumer" if your DS4 controller doesn't work at all on the PS5 which would mean that even when playing PS4 games on it you would need a DS controller instead. Now that would have been fucked up.

From what I remember PS2 is full BC with PS1 but still didn`t accept the control or memory card from PS1 to play even PS1 games did it? Same with PS3 on launch being full BC with PS1 and PS2 and still not allowing either controllers to be used, and for several PS3 games there was no input that DS2 couldn`t do. It have been the norm so far.

MS having decided to make the X1 control fully compatible (well they removed themselves from the concept of generation anyway since X1X) sure can be said to be customer friendly (even if other issues on the controller aren`t customer friendly) but that doesn`t make the other customer unfriendly. It is just old MS trying to get browny points to recover from the image they destroyed with X1 (and funnily enough it is exactly where they still want to go but now applauded with GP and XCloud).