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[Golgo 13]

There’s no way this is true or real. Putting a screen on a controller isn’t practical for cost/benefit analysis whatsoever, and as it’s been stated this would be way too small to be a useable screen, too expensive to replace, too many battery concerns, the list goes on.

I would be shocked if the DualShock 5 was much different than the 4, maybe with better build quality and the new rumble they’ve talked about.

 

[Kdad]

He does them in the middle of the video too.

Then I'm not bothering to click...thanks for heads up.

 

[Kdad]

$150 for a replacement controller.

Wii U!

 

[Kdad]

15 min video of pointless yapping on 1 picture.
Youtube 2019 in a nutshell.

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BRILLIANT...BRILLIANT.org that is

 

[TheContact]

If people complained about the controller light on the PS4 draining the battery...why the fuck would they put a screen on it?

it might be oled and have an improved battery?

 

[CJY]

To show how much of a fucking tool that youtuber is.

Here is another youtuber explaining how to run diablo 2 on a pi4 in 10 min

ETA Prime is a G, but not sure how this video shows how much of a tool that other guy is.

 

[Spukc]

ETA Prime is a G, but not sure how this video shows how much of a tool that other guy is.

other dude takes 15 min to talk about 1 picture ETA needs 10 to explain how to run d2 in linux

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Holy fuck! Skip to 3:00 to start of video. Giveaways and sponsors first 3 minutes

Yeah. I wish I could flag videos that started like this.

 

[TGO]

 

[Breakage]

It looks hideous.

 

[Kdad]

I scrubbed the vid of all ads and incorrect commentary...click below.

You're welcome

 

[navii]

^^ whats with that PS logo?

 

[xrnzaaas]

This would be a dumb idea even if it was true. I play in a dark room, wouldn't want the screen to shine on my face.

 

[navii]

I also hate artist's impressions / renders. I know people are excited, but if its not official, you are adding noise.

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

The controller IS the PS5! (It included a 4k screen too - AND it's self powered!)

 

[sonomamashine]

^^ whats with that PS logo?

Got fucked up.

 

[01011001]

let's forget the god awful video and just think about a touchscreen on a controller and how it could work.

my design idea would be a backlit E-Paper/E-Ink screen that has the sole purpose of giving developers the option to add additional buttons.

for example, let's take a game like Apex Legends, which has 5 healing items that you access by holding D-Pad Up and then choosing them in a wheel menu... On PC you can just map those to, let's say the number keys and quickly access them without going through a separate menu.
and this is how I imagine Apex using an E-Ink display on a possible next gen controller.

I threw this together in 5min, it's just so it's easy to see what I mean.


an E-Ink display dose use almost no power, a dim backlight wouldn't be much on the battery either, and during the day you could give an option to turn that off completely.
something like this would give the devs way more freedom in tailoring a control-scheme and make ring/wheel menus less of a burden on console versions of games.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

it might be oled and have an improved battery?

OLED would drain the battery even faster...

 

[sonomamashine]

OLED would drain the battery even faster...

He meant to say LED not OLED.

 

[Kdad]

let's forget the god awful video and just think about a touchscreen on a controller and how it could work.

my design idea would be a backlit E-Paper/E-Ink screen that has the sole purpose of giving developers the option to add additional buttons.

for example, let's take a game like Apex Legends, which has 5 healing items that you access by holding D-Pad Up and then choosing them in a wheel menu... On PC you can just map those to, let's say the number keys and quickly access them without going through a separate menu.
and this is how I imagine Apex using an E-Ink display on a possible next gen controller.

I threw this together in 5min, it's just so it's easy to see what I mean.


an E-Ink display dose use almost no power, a dim backlight wouldn't be much on the battery either, and during the day you could give an option to turn that off completely.
something like this would give the devs way more freedom in tailoring a control-scheme and make ring/wheel menus less of a burden on console versions of games.

Anything 'optional' never gets used for more than a brief period by developers and then is abandoned...always. If its going to be a screen it'll be for the OS and not for the games.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

He meant to say LED not OLED.

I mean...I highly doubt they'd put a CCFL backlight in there...that'd drain the battery even faster than OLED...

 

[01011001]

Anything 'optional' never gets used for more than a brief period by developers and then is abandoned...always. If its going to be a screen it'll be for the OS and not for the games.

I disagree, especially if it is mainly meant to be used as additional buttons. this doesn't take much developing effort at all and seeing how cluttered control-schemes are today with the need to hold down buttons to open circle menus for basically everything, something like this could be not only useful for developers, but also make the experience better for players.

the touchpad of the PS4 controller already basically is used like that, only with the drawback of not knowing which part of the touchpad is actually used as a button. you have games that use it as 2 buttons, some as 1, some use swipe gestures to imitate buttons...
all of this is very unintuetive since you can't actually see what is used as a button and what is not.

a low resolution e-Ink display could solve this and expand on the idea. now you could have 6 or so buttons and make it very clear where they are and how they function.

 

[CJY]

other dude takes 15 min to talk about 1 picture ETA needs 10 to explain how to run d2 in linux

ah, I get what you mean now. True. I watch most of YouTube at 2X speed and I still consider "zoneofTech" long-winded.

 

[bilderberg]

The screen makes perfect sense. The controller's going to have built in wi-fi and support sony's on demand streaming services. You'll be able to turn the screen off when playing at home to save on battery life.

 

[Kabelly]

did they mention the gyro sensor at all? I know this video is probably fake but man if they get rid of it next gen i'll legit cry

 

[JORMBO]

let's forget the god awful video and just think about a touchscreen on a controller and how it could work.

my design idea would be a backlit E-Paper/E-Ink screen that has the sole purpose of giving developers the option to add additional buttons.

for example, let's take a game like Apex Legends, which has 5 healing items that you access by holding D-Pad Up and then choosing them in a wheel menu... On PC you can just map those to, let's say the number keys and quickly access them without going through a separate menu.
and this is how I imagine Apex using an E-Ink display on a possible next gen controller.

I threw this together in 5min, it's just so it's easy to see what I mean.


an E-Ink display dose use almost no power, a dim backlight wouldn't be much on the battery either, and during the day you could give an option to turn that off completely.
something like this would give the devs way more freedom in tailoring a control-scheme and make ring/wheel menus less of a burden on console versions of games.

That sounds like a neat idea.

 

[Breakage]

A small screen in the controller would be nothing but a battery-draining gimmick.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Fucking shit is it have a screen

 

[PeacefulWorldGuy]

Colors gone (thumbnail)... All that's left is black and white, no green+red+blue+pink anymore.
This woke stick looks cheap too except that's arrow design.

Fucking shit is it have a screen

For whatsapp and videocall.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

This would be a dumb idea even if it was true. I play in a dark room, wouldn't want the screen to shine on my face.

No ambient lighting? That will fuck up your eyes mate.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

No ambient lighting? That will fuck up your eyes mate.

People were saying that to me 15 years ago. My eyes are still fine.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Colors gone (thumbnail)... All that's left is black and white, no green+red+blue+pink anymore.
This woke stick looks cheap too except that's arrow design.



For whatsapp and videocall.

Nahh, better my cellphone.

i hate to take care more the devices, and put a screen protector

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

People were saying that to me 15 years ago. My eyes are still fine.

Friend have you seen the avatar you are currently using?

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

Friend have you seen the avatar you are currently using?

Have you seen the legendarily shit film it's from? A film so bad it's not just good, but amazing?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Have you seen the legendarily shit film it's from? A film so bad it's not just good, but amazing?

I unironically hate films like these. Rather than ironically liking something for being terrible.

 

[Bryank75]

Incidentally, these crap YouTubers trying to push crap mobile games like they had "basically console-quality graphics" are hilariously ridiculous.

Over 1 minute ad full of false praise for shovelware he likely didn't touch for a single minute.

Yup, this guy in the video is usually shilling for Stadia... he is a mobile phone kid.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yup, this guy in the video is usually shilling for Stadia... he is a mobile phone kid.

Only time I heard about this guys was this shameful shilly YT vid where he brought up an 8 month old fake PS5 controller, where the guy who made it showed everyone on April Fools he photoshopped it.

Who knows what kind of stupid videos the YT guy does for clicks and shilling.

I'm sure it's not the first time he's dug up year old debunked rumours like it's recent news for click money.

 

[ResilientBanana]

This was proven fake in March.

 

[bhunachicken]

An e-ink or monochrome LCD (ala Dreamcast's VMU) might work?

e-ink would have a slower refresh rate than LCD, so it would have to be for really simple things. Still, something like that could be a really cool addition.

Oh, another issue: you'd need some sort of lighting on it. Then again, Kindles last a long time.

 

[Neoclash]

nice share

 

[kraspkibble]

is it really too much to ask for a NORMAL controller?

i don't want a touch pad, speakers, or a torch.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

is it really too much to ask for a NORMAL controller?

i don't want a touch pad, speakers, or a torch.

Hey, the speaker was a great idea though, and isn't a costly thing to add. The "torch" was only added for VR, and was a mistake, mind you. Best of all with the PS4 pad you can stick headphones in and listen to the game audio, which was brilliant.

I really hope the next xbox controller has a speaker and at least a share button (it will, I'm sure).

 

[Dr.brain64]

I like

 

[StreetsofBeige]

is it really too much to ask for a NORMAL controller?

i don't want a touch pad, speakers, or a torch.

Nope.

In tech land, it's all about adding more.

Soon, your gamepad will be able to do Powerpoint slides, and sync it as an Outlook email to your garage door opener. So when you get home from work, you can read a few slides before pressing Open.

 

[Mista]

Patents for DualShock 5 went up today in Japan

- Smaller sticks
- Big triggers
- USB port
- No light bar

Smaller stick? Ffs...

 

[Shifty]

- Smaller sticks
- Big triggers
- USB port
- No light bar

Smaller stick? Ffs...

Even smaller? The DS4 was already pushing it a bit
Nothing some aftermarket caps can't fix, but still.

The body itself gives me a bit of a Switch Pro controller vibe, now they've gone with a unibody design. That's probably going to fit in the hand much nicer, so props to that.

Looks solid enough, though the lack of innovation is a fumble imo. Controllers have been stuck in the local minima of this two-sticks-twelve-buttons-and-a-d-pad pattern for ages now, while other input methods like trackpad aiming (which is neither feasible nor comfortable with the central trackpad) go underserved.

And smh no paddles.

 

[Birdo]

That slow morph into an Xbox pad shape.

Now move the left stick to complete the transition.