Mercury Land-Snake
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If you had to choose between gaming with a DS4 or an Xbox 360 controller. What would you pick?
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If you had to choose between gaming with a DS4 or an Xbox 360 controller. What would you pick?
Twin Tails
Member
DS4. The warm softness of the DS4 build material outweighs the stick placement of the 360 controller.
kurisub306
Member
Not really but the design makes it uncomfortable to hold and pull triggers on. Here is a graphical representation explaining why you will accidentally pull triggers all the time on xbox one.
Trigger finger marked in red.
I had issues with the bumpers as well it seems like you have to push down on the outer edges of the bumpers, which is annoying since the ends of my fingers rest on the inside edges. Was one of the first things I noticed when I got my hands on the controller.
He's too busy priming for taking over Jay Leno's audience and spot. Wonder if he will continue to do as much "young" stuff like play video games on his show anymore.
Phire Phox
Banned
They showed the Xbone version during their E3 press conference
Ploid 3.0
Member
I don't know why you keep saying that.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Nice. You're talking about the grip on the underside right? I can't wait to try this controller.
Lol, definitely a joke post.
3rdamention
Member
I'm saying they were supposed to have a 64player demo at Pax and it sounds like only 16 players running on a windows 7 PC..
Hahahaha riiiiiiight.
I guess literally everyone else that has held the thing has got it wrong, then. The hyperbole here is amazing sometimes.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Penis look redeemed. It looks funny but apparently it makes it comfortable?
level_e11even
Banned
Where did you read that?
I have always thought that DS4 looks more comfortable, more refined controller. seems like you solidified my thoughts. Thanks
DS4 best controller to grace earth, available Nov 15
Whipped Spartan
Member
First impressions are great and all but any new controller feels odd until you game with it for some time.
Would be interested to hear if you played more than KZ and BF4 today.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Pretty much every hands on I've read (I've read just about all of them) have said that the Xbox One controller is a step back from the Xbox 360 controller and the DS4 is the better controller overall.
Here's another set of impressions I found today:
http://o.canada.com/2013/08/30/press-start-ps4s-dualshock-4-vs-xbox-one-controller/
The shape if the X1 controller automatically makes it uncomfortable to hold. It reminds me of those crappy pdp trigger grips for the vita. They have the exact same shape.
I never had that issue with any of the playstation controllers. All of them have felt pretty natural aside from DS3's triggers. 360 controller was also pick up and play immediate comfort. Honestly if a controller isn't immediately comfortable they've done something wrong.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Damn thing is an eyesore, but I don't care if it feels like sex for the hands. I've suffered with the DS1/2/3 for way too long.
Whipped Spartan
Member
whaaat LOL are you reading YouTube comments? Everyone seems to universal like it.
3rdamention
Member
http://majornelson.com/2013/08/27/xbox-one-at-pax-prime-on-august-30-september-2/
Battlefield 4: Known for their world-class multiplayer, DICE is bringing Battlefield 4’s epic 64-player battles, vehicular combat and all-out warfare to North American fans this week. Gamers will have a chance to go hands-on with the “Siege of Shanghai” beta launching in early October. With the release of Battlefield 4 this holiday, players will experience an all-new level of destruction and dynamic environments with a game-changing concept called Levolution, and for the first time for Battlefield console gamers, 64-players running at 60 frames-per-second on Xbox One. #BF4
Played Driveclub, Knack, Tearaway, KZSF, BF4, HAWKEN on the Oculus Rift HD (life changing) saw Watch_Dogs, ACIV.
Going to repeat all the Sony stuff and add in Infamous SS tomorrow, then hit up all the Nintendo stuff.
I stood next to Kamiya while he watched people try W101
Even Polygon, a MS funded website, declared DS4 as best controller ever.
level_e11even
Banned
What I find amazing is that you seem totally comfortable with the opposite of his analogy being true, as if there aren't people out there that might also think otherwise (like you think otherwise of his). Point being:
That's HIS opinion. And he put up pic to give you an idea why. Can't fault him for it.
Twin Tails
Member
Most impression have been positive, won't take OPs word on controller. Gotta try that thing myself.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Nope, articles on the web. The major criticism I've read over and over are:
1) Feels more cramped compared to the Xbox 360 controller
2) Triggers and Bumpers feel worse
Everything else is positive (d-pad, face buttons) or neutral (analogues).
Whipped Spartan
Member
Played Driveclub, Knack, Tearaway, KZSF, BF4, HAWKEN on the Oculus Rift HD (life changing) saw Watch_Dogs, ACIV.
Going to repeat all the Sony stuff and add in Infamous SS tomorrow, then hit up all the Nintendo stuff.
I stood next to Kamiya while he watched people try W101
Hit up indie mega booth and Xbox. Anything you feel is a must own on ps4 yet?
It's entirely dependent on the size of my hands. If I had slightly bigger hands, I'd probably love the Xbone controller. I have small, delicate, piano hands.
Temped to cancel my PS4 preorder actually, lol. Depends on Infamous at this point.
Were you the only one at PAX who played the Xbox version of BF4? I cant find a single other written report about it. It seems that if they were running a gimped "Xbox" version running on a PC that was only 16 players there would have been reports minutes after the show opened.
Was it in the Xbox booth?
Was it in the Xbox booth?
SmoothRunningGun
Member
MS spent 100mil and made the controller worse--lol.
Er.. The majority do seem to prefer the DS4 over the X1 controller so not sure what is the hyperbole here. Not that I have any issue with DS3 so if X1 is like DS3 in his comparison I have no problems.
Can you post more sources? What I've seen says it's largely the same as the 360 controller with some improvements.
It was at the Xbox booth, with fake Xbox Ones sitting atop the boxes containing the Win 7 PCs playing Battlefield 4. I saw the desktop on multiple demo stations, and pausing the game showed the mouse cursor. The HUD displayed keyboard keys. There were zero unlocks. Player count was tiny. There were 20 demo stations total and a bunch of them weren't operational.
I also saw Knack crash and the guy working the booth had to restart the devkit. Got a tiny close-up peek at the PS4 login UI.
Tearaway actually crashed on me also. Such is the nature of unfinished games.
Off-Kilter
Banned
Where's the hyperbole in that post? You seem needlessly salty over the opinion of a guy who appears to have played around with both controllers and then gave an honest assessment of the two.
I think a lot of people are just going to enjoy hearing anything negative about the XboxOne.
level_e11even
Banned
I see. What's even weirder is that the BF twitter has been tweeting that a beta (not alpha like Gamescom) was going to be shown at PAX:
And now it turns out the PRE-alpha build from E3 is the one being shown? I mean why not simply re-use the alpha from Gamescom? It doesn't make sense to show an inferior build from months ago.
To me this all sounds like someone made a huge mistake.
3rdamention
Member
Wow, just because they spent that ridiculous amount of money on the research for the new controller doesn't mean it guarantees every person that touches it will think its better than the previous version...
I don't understand your logic at all.....
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
hyperbole is gaf's favorite word.
everything is hyperbole.
oh come on, you can do better than that.
everything is hyperbole.
oh come on, you can do better than that.
Persecution complex ftw.
It's ergonomically worse. All they had to do was fix the dpad and bumpers but they went and royally screwed it up.
Arkam
Member
That's definetly not the case at pax prime. I recorded my whole play through of TitanFall today. Ms guys were all nice as hell, despite the long line (took my whole lunch break)
3rdamention
Member
There's a screwup somewhere cause if you read my post and the OP they are playing the Beta map but not with 64 players....weird...
Phire Phox
Banned
This. There are so much positive feedback on the Xbone controller. A few people saying slightly negative things about hardly makes it a bad controller.
Whipped Spartan
Member
I was thinking the same thing.
So much bickering during new console launches. You would assume this community was mature enough to just be happy about both systems and admit to themselves they'll get both eventually.
Mercury Land-Snake
Member
Here's a youtube video from Jeff Cannata who briefly talks about both controllers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvkO1JpTp4#t=5m47s
Chobel
Member
What's your impression about Tearaway?
I see. What's even weirder is that the BF twitter has been tweeting that a beta (not alpha like Gamescom) was going to be shown at PAX:
And now it turns out the PRE-alpha build from E3 is the one being shown? I mean why not simply re-use the alpha from Gamescom? It doesn't make sense to show an inferior build from months ago.
To me this all sounds like someone made a huge mistake.
This was the screen shown upon death:
I am not a liar.
I'm not buying an XboxOne. Not anytime soon, at least. What would I have to feel persecuted about? :/