1. Finally, A Controller Situated For FPS's
This final reason ties into #4, involving the use of the redesigned triggers guards. But I'll give it just enough detail to have it stand out. I know I can't be the only one on this matter, but playing an FPS on the previous DualShocks seemed like one of the most awkward experiences ever. My first FPS on the DualShock 3 was Resistance: Fall of Man, and ever since the start of the game I could never wrap my mind around just how clunky and strange it felt. Perhaps it's my familiarity with playing FPS's on the Xbox and Xbox 360, but I'd like to think it's not. I rejected playing shooters on the Xboxes so that I could adjust to playing them on the PlayStation 3; in the end, it yielded the same clunky and strange results. It just didn't have necessary flow and reflexes as it did on Microsoft's platform(s). It could just be me, but again I'd like to think that others have or had the same issue. Now, with the release of the PS4 and the remodelling of the DualShock with all its vast improvements, I'm proud to say I can
finally play an FPS without the clunkiness and strangeness I had way back when. The first game I purchased was Killzone: Shadow Fall and it played like a gem, all in thanks to how the triggers responded and the way the controller felt in my hands. It didn't remind me so much of the 360 controller as it did with how it carried the same familiar layout of the previous DualShocks, but this time with the actual feeling of accomplishing something in a shooter rather than feeling weightless and insignificant thanks to the awkward feeling of the triggers and bumpers. Hopefully down the line future FPS's on the PS4 follow suit and become just as flexible as Shadow Fall is. I deem it as a critical standpoint for the platform if it can acquire more FPS players than the Xbox One can. And that would be quite the irony where I come from. As a side note the new DualShock 4, in terms of FPS multiplayer, is more responsive than I could ever imagine, thanks in part to the redesign and Guerilla Studios for implementing a familiar control scheme in Killzone: Shadow Fall and making it work all the better thanks to Sony's new vision of how next generation console controllers should play and look like. What do you guys ultimately think? Is it the definitive controller for the new generation? Do you prefer the last generation DualShock's instead? Feel free to comment below!