A little bit of fanboy reaction to the PlayStation 5 weekend feature. Especially that guy in the Morning Inbox calling the feature’s writer a punk and shaming GC for running it, ridiculous. The areas of possible improvements in the article are generally recognised weak areas for Sony.
There’s been enough complaints to see many PlayStation 4 models have loud fans. My early Pro model gets very loud. I now play it using headphones, it gets that distracting.
I like the DualShock 4 but the thumbsticks are the poorest, by some margin, on equivalent pads. i.e. Xbox One and Switch Pro Controller. It’s not their durability, I find the DualShock 4 sturdy. It’s that they have large dead zones and poor contact with your thumb when pushed to their extremities. In terms of arrangement and design it’s widely regarded as not the most ergonomic and suffers a little from keeping its iconic look. There was an issue with the rubber on the analogue sticks splitting too.
I’ve little issue with PSN, it works fine. But enough users have complained about poor download speeds to see the network coverage is a little patchier than Microsoft’s. Sony have conceded this point by signing up with Microsoft to use their Azure infrastructure for future streaming needs.
It is stupid that the light bar on the controller can’t be turned off. Sony’s attitude to backwards compatibility this gen has been rubbish and it’s Microsoft’s superb efforts that’s made it a topic of concern and given Sony no choice but to talk it up for PlayStation 5. I do think PlayStation 4 back compatibility would off featured in PlayStation 5 anyway, but Microsoft guaranteed it.
I’m a happy Sony customer but all the points in the article are valid and some reactions to it has shown to me fanboyism still lurks on the Internet.
Simundo Jones
