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[DeepEnigma]

Nobody keeps multiple controllers docked and charged on standby?

Holding a fresh cool to the touch controller is like changing your socks after a long day to a fresh pair.

 

[Katatonic]

Au contraire, not including an internal battery while charging full price is an anti consumer scam.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I’ve come to really come around on the ps5 controller, but holy shit is it’s battery dog shit. Wouldn’t it make more business sense for Sony to put the battery option on us? Ship a controller with two AA, sell your own rechargeable battery option with a huge profit mark up (for the suckers), and let gamers have the option of using already owned batteries.

I just don’t get it.

I’d lump Nintendo into the same camp, except its internal battery usage is amazing.

 

[UnravelKatharsis]

Where's the option for "external is anti consumer?" Every device I have that needs external batteries makes me curse the existence of external batteries.

 

[Adam_802]

"External" gives you the option for both, and you never have to worry about the built-in internal battery dying over time( or having bad battery life to begin with...) I can still bring out my old 360 controllers packed away for years and put fresh AAs in them and they just work fine with the same duration as the day they were new.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

internal is the more elegant solution, but AA is more practical.

in the days before good rechargeable AAs, controllers with AAs were dumb.