Not trying to be rude but it is like you are trying to obfuscate the issue entirely.
The top of the thumb sticks do not show use after two weeks. The column that rubs against the controller frame does. Plastic on plastic will show wear.
I requested a picture of your PS4 controller from a top view, not an angle. Cause this thread is about the rubber on the top of the thumb stick, is it not?
You posted a picture of the DS4 from an angle, to say 'look you see that thumb stick column? It has wear'.
I then requested a comparison to your DS3 controller so it could be compared to the 'wear' that you are stating is on the DS4. You posted a top down view...making it impossible to compare the two.
To clear this up.
DS4=Angle shot
DS3=Top down
What are we supposed to be comparing here, you cannot with the pictures you have posted.
Again you stated:
I'm concluding by the picture that you are posted that you are referring to the thumb stick column and NOT the top of the thumb stick (which is what this thread is all about).
ALL controllers will have that wear on the column, plastic rubbing against plastic.
What the hell? Read my post again, I put the points underneath that this particular photo showed. It shows that a picture up close will show dust and make a controller look messy, I showed that the seam is not a "pube" or a "crack" in the controller. I was posting that photo not to show anything with the thumbstick. I would've taken a top down angle of it, but even if I did people will say "meh looks fine to me"
If you don't see the spot where the controller has cleared been smoothed off from where his thumb rested, then that's fine, I see it, you don't period. The guy didn't take a piece of sand paper to his controller. There is NO NEED to. If you're so confident, then pick up your damn controller and rub your finger with some friction. I know this isn't necessarily a common motion used in gaming, but it never had the effect on any other controller I've used, that it has on this one, period. I believe this issue will crop up. It may be 75% of the controllers, it maybe 10%. But I think a ton of people are going to be reporting in with this issue.
I understand that at kiosks the controllers aren't treated well, but the majority of the time, the controllers, while worn, aren't ripped like that. The kiosks have only been out for a few weeks now, and there are already multiple reports- from the video in the OP, from multiple events including E3 and Pax Prime, from kiosks at stores, and from this user on reddit. Believe what you want, call me a fanboy that's fine, ignore the issue maybe it won't happen. I'm hoping it doesn't.
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Maybe you can clarify it then.
He is showing an image of a completely separate issue. The thread is about the top of the thumb stick, yes? He is showing an image concerning the column which rubs against the frame of the controller. Yes?
LOL you have horrible reading comprehension.
"Took a picture of mine to put
some of this to bed
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Everybody saying "eww it's gross, it's cigarette ashes, it's dusty, etc." I'll echo what others have said in this very thread. Take a high res photo with the flash and you'll be shocked to find what it looks like.
My controller has the very same white dust sprinkled on it.
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No those lines are not "cracks" or even worse "pubes" as it's been said multiple times in the thread. Those lines just under the analog are PART OF THE CONTROLLER. Notice in this shot you can see those lines, they are on both sides. People keep sayin "lol it's got cracks in it, lol it's got hair on it, lol it's got pubes on it."
Nope just part of the controller.
- Why is everyone just laughing this off and not even considering it in the realm of possibility?
We have multiple sources now claiming this very issue, there's two right in the OP. There are multiple people in this thread who have come out about kiosk controllers being like this, people who went to pax prime experienced the same problem."
The point of the picture was to point the BS smear points to bed including- the guy is a slob, it has a crack in it, he's the only one, etc etc. Maybe the guy is these things, but I would wager after my own experience with my own controller that he's telling the truth. Nobody has reported back to me after rubbing into their analog stick themselves.
edit edit- it was taken at that angle specifically to show this guy didn't crack his controller or just sprinkle his pubes all over it. Somebody up there circled the damn photo in MS paint as if analyzing the photo and says LOOK A PUBE! LOOK A CRACK! It's part of the controller... that's embarrasing.