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What are some small details with a current or past console that annoys you?

And I mean really small things that rubs you the wrong way but really can’t be considered a dealbreaker. 

For me a recent such thing is for the Switch 2. The old Switch pro controller is fully compatible and works flawlessly with the Switch 2 with one caveat: you can not wake it from sleep with the home button on the old pro controller (I will not retire my Splatoon 2 special edition pro controller!)

Another small thing are all consoles with optical drive that have an insertion slot instead of a disc tray. This was a plague when my kids where small and just learning to walk since small kids have a tendency to jam all kinds of crap into the slot. 



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Xbox 360 and PS3
-Lack a modern rest mode. You can set them to turn off after downloading games or updates, which is nice. Still it would be nice for them to consume less power.
PS3
-Slow trophy syncing. It's ungodly since I have hundreds of PS4 games and PS4, Vita, and obviously PS3 show up on your trophy list on PS3.
PS Vita
-Every time you power on Vita (from turned off) and have a Game Card inserted, it pops up for a few seconds and you can't bypass it.
PS4 and PS5
-No CD support
Xbox One
-Not as intuitive as PS4 and PS5 to go into rest mode.
Switch & Switch 2
-Only shows your most recent 20 games and usually goes increments of 5 hours.
Switch 2
-Switch Pro Controller not waking up the console (as you said)
-No YouTube

Maybe I'll think of more later.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 159 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million, then 161 million)

PS5: 116 million (was 105 million, then 115 million, then 122 million)

Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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The way the PlayStation button works on PS5 is still as unintuitive as it was when I first used the system. Occasionally I still use it incorrectly despite mostly having got used to it.

Slow trophy syncing on PS3, as mentioned in the previous post, is a really good pick. Another one is slow loading of the game list in the trophies section. It's especially bad since if you open a game, then navigate back to the game list, you can't navigate to another game until the list has finished loading - which can take dozens of seconds or maybe even minutes - it's just terrible. I'm not sure if you can even do anything other than turn off the console at that point (besides waiting, of course).

Last edited by Zkuq - 1 hour ago

Switch not showing your exact playtime, and only for recently played games, as mentioned.

PS4 store not having a proper wishlist feature.

Xbox One having such a sluggish UI/OS.

PS5 dualsense having such a short battery life.