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- Jan 2, 2023
The analog buttons are baffling to me. The only explanation for adding them I can think of is some head engineer getting a wild hair up his ass that the PS2 controller needed that feature because he was interested in the tech behind it.The PS1 DualShock feels a LOT better than everything that came after it. The analog buttons they introduced on PS2 made button feel more squishy and the dpad less crisp, they actually improved this for the PS3 SIXAXIS/DualShock but the buttons still being analog means they will never feel quite right as the bottom of the buttons is curved rather than flat, but at least the dpad doesn't feel like mush.
The heaviness is because of the vibration weights, somewhere around halfway through the PS2's life they reduced the size of the weights significantly and that carried over to the PS3.
And the less said about PS4's 6 hour battery life monstrosity the better.
For the longest time I would use a PS1 DualShock (sometimes with an adapter) on any newer PlayStation, on PS2 you can even chain a couple adapters to force them to work with games that only want analog buttons like Star Ocean 3, but lately the cord has bugged me and I've been hoping 8BitDo makes a kit to make one wireless.
The trigger design on the PS3 controller is also an insane oversight, if your fingers are sweaty in the slightest they'll slip off which makes playing racing games for longer than 20 minutes an absolute chore, not to mention that the trigger itself has no feedback whatsoever because the spring in it is very weak which makes modulating the throttle and brake harder than it needs to be.
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