I love having the back button attachment on the DS4. Hopefully Sony releases one for the PS5 controller in the future.

Sony should really just make a pro controller or at least had made a back buttons attachment at launch. Hope they do make an attachment soon.

I know the majority that frequent this site are single player only gamers and seem to have very little interest towards anything mp gamers want so I am sure this will get downvoted but Sony missed a real opportunity to gain even more market share here. Since they don't already have their own pro controller they could have added detachable back buttons or paddles. If you are a high level player they become a necessity to allow the same types of movements and constant control to better compete with mouse and keyboard and the vast majority of high level competitive gamers are using a controller with back buttons or playing claw which is horrible for your hand health. Since they already have a marketing deal with COD they could have easily promoted each others with that feature to entice the tryhards and create a market that competitive players have an ecosystem catering to them as well. Instead though, they did not, did not release an update for the back button attachment, and worst of all disallow any ps4 controller from being compatible with next gen games essentially giving a big FU to all the players that bought very expensive pro controllers for the PS4.

how many buttons do we need honestly, not all games warrant 20 buttons on a single controller.

Sony don't include back buttons because Scuf and other controller manufacturers claimed patent ownership of natively included paddles or buttons on the back of controllers. The only way Sony could do it is with a circumvention like the back button attachment. There is a reason why that had an OLED screen and that was because it was the only way they could go ahead and make one without incurring legal wrath.

I hate back buttons. Doesn't work with how I hold the controller.

Like every big corporation on earth, to squeeze every last penny from you. Same bs reason the ssd is tiny.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau