PS button: Turns your PS4 console on when it’s either turned off or in rest mode. It also display the home screen. Touch pad. The built-in touch pad lets you have precise control and features a one of kind light bar which adds an additional dimension to your gaming experience. It took months to start to get used to it (along with configuration to add a 35% deadzone), and I still hate it as much as the day I first used it. Built-in speaker. Bring your games to life and hear every detail with sound effects coming directly from your PS4 wireless controller.

Steam's controller stuff could work too, but I never bothered with it, since DS4Windows is a lot more powerful and works on every application, not just Steam games. It's a lot better than the old x360ce we've (DINPUT controller users) been forced to use, and you can even turn off the stupid light bar with it. You need a solid D-pad: The Razer Raiju's D-pad is easily its weakest element, which means some genres that rely heavily on it will feel less enjoyable to play. You need the DS4Windows tool to get it working properly, which emulates an XBOX 360 controller. Sony said it had native PC support. Sure, if you consider the 1% of games that properly detect it as 'support'. USB battery charging. Charge the controller's internal battery from your PS4 USB port, giving you hassle-free charging as you play. Pinch in and pinch out: Place two fingers on the touch pad and move them closer together or further apart.Apparently if you're using a PS4, that's not a problem, because a PS4 comes with the cable(s) you need, or is native wireless. But if you're using it on PC, you're SOL and forced to buy your own micro-usb cable. Well, unless your motherboard came with some fancy bluetooth wireless adapter (or you bought one as an add-in card, you loony), but then you're using wireless and have to deal with all its problems, along with needing to charge the built-in battery. Basically, you need a cable no matter what.

Either way, I can't rate this thing any worse than a 1 star here, but by god these controllers are truly garbage. My DS2 still works fine aside from age wear, and if it didn't have compatibility issues on PC with an adapter and third party tools (x360ce), I'd still be using it. Thanks for cheaping out over time, Sony.

You're not a child: It's hard to recommend this controller to adults, unless you really like the petite form factor. Every controller I've ever used for any platform has had the start/select buttons in the center of it. Not this thing; the touchpad is there. The utterly useless touchpad which controls your mouse cursor.. which we have a MOUSE for. Oh, and some games see them as an axis with their resting point as -50 and fully pressed as +50 and as a result the DS4 pad is unusable in numerous titles. Even just having it plugged in in certain controller aware games will result in the camera or mouse moving up and to the left at all times unless you hold both triggers at their center point. Utterly unusable.

The trigger sensitivity results in accidental activation with the slightest touch; even just holding the controller with your fingers on the shoulder buttons will result in them triggering. Additionally, because they're resistive triggers, you have to forcefully hold them down when you want to press the button, resulting in fatigue. I actually suffer pain after a while of playing games with this controller solely due to the constant force required to press these triggers. The integrated light bar not only adds a stylish touch but also provides visual cues during gameplay and syncs with certain in-game events. It's a small detail that enhances immersion. You can use the touch pad and the touch pad button for various system functions. Available functions depend on the content in use. Share button. By simply pushing the share button, you can capture and share your finest gaming moments. You can directly upload these screenshots from your PS4 or even livestream your gameplay without disturbing your game’s progress.

Any sort of light touch on this thing will register, causing the cursor or camera whatever else to move around, inciting frustration. The pad also doubles as buttons if you press down on them; 2 different ones.. basically a gigantic start and select button. EDIT: There's also an 'upper' touch button. The connector, ontop of being micro-usb, is also designed in such an asinine way. There's a cut out for the connector so the housing actually fits, but there's also a piece of plastic housing that juts out surrounding the internal connector. This plastic meets with the housing on the cable connector, stopping it from fully inserting. This alone is mainly why it's extremely loose and wobbles very easily. Their major advantage over regular pads is the use of a “rapid-fire” chip that lets you map a button for the controller to automatically spam as you’re playing – meaning you can artificially boost your reaction times when playing against others. If you think the reward outweighs the risk, go for it – but our advice is to steer clear. Are third-party controllers compatible with all games? The amount of frustration this has caused is immense. You can't move the controller while using it or else whoops, connection lost. The only fix I found is to BUY A NEW CABLE for it to last a few weeks before the metal becomes loose enough for it to wobble and have the same problem crop up again and again. In 2 weeks they both started having loose connections with the gamepad. I'm talking barely any movement and it'll lose connection repeatedly, multiple times a second.