The Dual Shock battery life is a damn joke

You did buy an Xbox recently didn't you? if so you better watch out as you will go from a sheep to a lem real fast if you keep stirring up the cows lol.

@that_old_guy: no I bought an xbox INSTEAD of a ps4(controller only one reason) Meaning rather than buying a 300 dollar machine that needed a second controller. I bought a 300 dollar machine that didn't. It's not even the cost... it's the principle.

Geesh guys. Stop being fanboys. You can easily turn off the controller during cutscenes for longer batter life. ;)

I'd argue even before that with the Wii U Pro controller, but then again, given the hate the Wii U gets, no one will be given that any credit where it's due.

@Steppy_76: you can dim the light, but the track pad is also just a glorified button and I’m sure that it can’t just be turned off as it has many functions that aren’t just “swipe right for X item” both in and out of games like using it as a mouse or to type.

Not that the usual ways of doing these things aren’t easier, but I would think it wouldn’t be that simple.

@Steppy_76: I mean if you’re in to Sony’s exclusives I dont think the controller is going to be where you start your war on the gaming industry.

There’s a lot of reasons so many people have bought the PS4.

For all those reasons it would seem you’re in the minority of buying a totally separate system with controllers being a hard difference maker.

I mean, I like most the Xbox exclusives but Sony has many more of them and at higher quality. If you’re wanting those types of games buying a second controller over choosing to buy a totally different console and not play those games seems like an overkill.

It affects the lifetime of the controller. With 6-8 hours on a new controller, you will probably be wanting a new controller when you're down to half of that. If you had 12-16 hours, each cycle in the battery could last twice as long, halving the number it is charged in a time period (say 2 years) and thus last much longer.

As I've already stated, my personal gaming time is limited there are literally far more games in every genre on pretty much every machine out there that library differences really don't matter. Even the "no exclusive" Xbox is gonna end up with what 1500-2000 games this gen?

I don't tend to have a problem with it, I get between 12-15 hrs, although I have the newer version that came with the Pro and turn off rumble, dim the light and the speaker as I don't like any of them.

I hope they get rid of the light next gen.

Great point, I love it! I just got a bright idea. Sony should make the charge only last 5 minutes and make the charging take 5 hours that way everyone can have more of a life and live healthier! Thank you for your inspirational ideas sir! You are appreciated!

Actually you're better off just getting a usb cable. It's cheaper, and you can play while charging.

Am I'm the only gamer here who just happens to use USB cable all the time without ever thinking about battery life's problem? Or the fact I always charge my DS4 controller whenever I leave my console on stand-by mode? All of this is just easy as counting 1, 2, 3.

I know it's not perfect and it could've been better but there's a 1000 ways to skin a cat. (Not that I'll ever do such a horrible thing because I'm a huge cat lover)

I got a USB cable from CEX works fine decent enough length cost less than £5.