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Destructoid: PS4 controller prototype & devkit photo, [Up: New Photo/Info In OP]
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Isn't that extra work for your thumbs?
Yeah too bad this is the final product, as stated in the thread title you clicked on.
Damn!
Insane Metal
Member
Considering the small size of the DS3 controller, the rumoured PS4 controller doesn't seem big at all.
Assuming the face buttons will remain the same size.
It looks about 15 to 20mm larger than the DS. Which is really good, I don't have big hands but I also think the DS is small.
Graphics Horse
Member
Take a look at this pic:
I'm thinking that start and select still exist as buttons but are placed differently.
Other way round
Why do they need to be far apart?
The idea doesn't die because there is no dedicated button. It could be the first option on the screen when you press the PS button.
What never made sense to me was a button whos only function was to go to the share options.
Probably for backwards compatibility reasons. And I mean being backwards compatible with the Move API. The system itself being backwards compatible another thing up for debate.
So a button click and no share button? Not bad but I thought the Share idea had promise.
To give different perspectives
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
I would say most people who plan on getting a PS4 prefer having their thumbs down like they've always been.Fucking sticks still in the wrong place, y u no learn from ergonomics overlords sony.
Not being a fanboy, (almost) definitely going PS4 next gen, just really don't like DS layout of sticks.
Oh well, the added bulk probably makes it a bit more comfortable.
edit: am sorry to bitch in this awesome thread
But of course is Sony could release dozens of different color variants to the DS3 surely they could release some alternate stick-alignment variants as well?
Kun Aguero
Member
Considering the small size of the DS3 controller, the rumoured PS4 controller doesn't seem big at all.
Assuming the face buttons will remain the same size.
Thanks for that, i was hoping someone would try to work out the size based on the buttons. If the buttons are the same size as on the ds3 then I'm pretty happy with it being larger.
I can't believe you can't read >_> Did you not read the thread title or what?
Graphics Horse
Member
Greater stereo sepration helps for determining depth accurately from several meters away, but it looks a bit extreme to me.
Take a look at this pic:
I'm thinking that start and select still exist as buttons but are placed differently.
Noap. Those are flush. More than likely these are covers for screws.
I believe this is actually one of the first devkits and not a more recent version. The controller will be more streamlined when we see it next week.
leatherhat
Member
Ill say this, my controller throwing fits of rage are really gonna need to stop. Dual shocks cost enough without a touch screen.
BruiserBear
Banned
LMAO
I can't believe people can't read that it's a prototype for fuck's sake.
Jaded Alyx
Member
It's possible in some Wii U games so maybe.
Insane Metal
Member
About the cameras in the devkit: someone asked about why they are put so far apart, the answer is that they are this way to give a much better sense of distance, size and depth!
Yeah, if they are 3D they need at least a decent amount of separation (certainly wider than the PS Eye) since they have to capture the 3D from a living room distance.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Those black rectangles on the dev kit blowed up a bit.
Yeah those definitely looks like cameras.
Kind of weird they are built in to the main dev kit box and not just a plug in device.
Graphics Horse
Member
They might be flush but they could easily be S+S buttons, they don't exactly need much travel in them or be anything different to what you'd see on a smartphone.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
spekkeh said:
But the Gamecube controller was like holding a unicorn's balls!
Its a touch pad, not a screen.
I would imagine that the distance they need to be apart would be dependant on the resolution of the cameras and the processing they can do in the images.
If they were only say 640x480 sensors then they would need to be farther apart, as there is less resolution to resolve the changes in perspective. If they were 1920x1080 sensors they could be closer together. Obviously the higher the pixel count the more effort it is to apply the same processing to the image, but it might need less because it was higher resolution.
This isn't the final design either way anyways. They could think of a different location to place them by the time they start production on these things.
Hopefully they aren't that way in the final console, because then the cameras would be aimed at knees and coffee tables.
Or on the wrong plane (vertical vs horizontal).
BibiMaghoo
Member
Hmm, I can see how that may be annoying. Fair enough.
That was my thought as well, since it'd make vastly more sense to have that be a rudimentary display of variable buttons than to be a touch pad that you use to (???) in a video game.Err, shiny touch pads are SUPER common on laptops. Don't put too much faith in it being a screen.
This is the laptop I use (with shiny touch pad):
And with the click of the big button there, this appears on it:
I'm guessing we'll see something like this on the controller as well.
...if it's not an OLED, that is......
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
I'm guessing we'll see something like this on the controller as well.
I hope it's like this...would be awesome
Considering the small size of the DS3 controller, the rumoured PS4 controller doesn't seem big at all.
Assuming the face buttons will remain the same size.
doesnt look like the same perspective to me
Portugeezer
Member
It's not, the original photo is angled (you can see clearly from the analogue sticks) and I couldn't find a DS3 photo in the same angle. It's just a rough comparison anyway as we don't know the true size of things, but it looks like it won't be as big as some people make it out to be.
If it's anything like the Vita's, it'll be amazing. Like a DS Phat d-pad with a higher profile.
Doesn't stop it from being fucking ugly!
So people can't run off with them and sell them. Control let's wired for the same reason. Much tougher to steal/leak the whole actual devkit.
Haunted
Member
RoadHazard
Gold Member
The Sixaxis/DS3 does detect yaw, it has a gyroscope in it. It has almost never been used in games however (although there are some that use it), so that's probably why people don't know that. But yeah, the DS3 has as advanced motion sensing as the Wiimote with Motion Plus (except for the IR camera, of course). This glowing thing could, however, let the PS4 know the position of the controller with the help of the camera. So you could probably get pretty accurate pointing controls with it.
That's a good feeling, right?
pharmboy044
Member
I wonder if they will go with a lithium battery in the controller.