10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About PlayStation

5. The Touchpad Remains Completely Pointless

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Sony have been very stubborn with the design of their controllers since day one. In essence, it has always been the same design: a D pad, two control sticks, four buttons and four trigger buttons. While X, Circle, Triangle, Square has become synonymous with Playstation; there have always been little improvements here and there... until now.

Now, we have the same controller we've all become accustomed to with a seemingly useless touchpad plonked directly in the middle of it. Anyone else thinking it might be a bit of an afterthought to make use of tactile technology?

So far, I've used my touchpad to bring up the map in Assassin's Creed 4, control a drone in Killzone and access the battle log in Battlefield 4 and... that's about it.

As far as gimmicks go, this one is a complete waste of time - unless there are any incredible uses of the touchpad you can shout out in the comments below?

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