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

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

Jranation said:

If the game is still playable without those new  controller features then I rather have the option to use my old controllers and save money. Especially when local multiplayer takes into place. This actually gives Xbox Series X an indirect price advantage. 

Guess you could say the same thing about every controller released since 1998. Technically, there has never been the reason for new consoles to not support the older controllers by your reasoning.

The only funny thing is, now more than ever the PS5 actually has a legitimate reason to not support the older controller. 

DonFerrari said:

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).

Yup, MS being MS... and unfortunately there seems to always be people that fall for that shit. Lets not forget the 360 controllers, what reason is there as to why its not being supported by the XB1 or even the XSX? I mean MS cuts out batteries from the controller and finds a way to dress that up as being consumer-friendly.

And don't even get me started on the whole Smart delivery nonsense, they just renamed something sony had been doing since 2013.

MS is looking like politicians, savior of the world, sole owners of truth and good intentions, who rename everything to look like they created it =p

And as I said somewhere, people have been complaining that Sony didn't change their DualShock for 4 gens (let's pretend they didn't, just because the general look have been similar and mapping as well, because we know that the "improvement" they wanted Sony to do was copy the analog placement from MS) and know that they do a major change we complain they won't allow you to use the older control.

On the internal battery I just laugh off. "But after 10 years of playing if your battery dies you have to change the whole control while I have been able to keep changing batteries". Seems like my older DS4 started having problems of battery, my son really is someone that don't pay attention to his charge and is all the time hooking up the control to the cord and jumping around so he destroys cables and give a lot of charging cycles to the control. So now I look at 4 alternatives... buy an original control for 60 (nope I have 3), buy an knock off for under 30 (why would I do that?), buy a battery pack for 5 USD (seem a lot cheaper than having to buy and recycle several batteries for the X1 or buy their battery pack) or since my son still keep doing the same stuff just keep him using the chord and don`t expend the money at this moment (my choice so far). Anyway changing the battery of DS4 is so simple that I can`t believe the big mountain made of "when my battery dies out in 10 years I lose my control" and these same people buy smartphones like iPhone that after 6 months have a battery that have been severely depleted, costs more than some other smartphones (battery versus full phone) and use for 2 years.