DualShock 4 Back Button Attachment Review – A Small But Impactful Improvement

There’s 2 buttons on the back of the attachment, that end up sitting specifically where your ring fingers are. My hand positioning on the controller did require a bit of an adjustment, and the controller does feel visible bulkier (thanks to the OLED screen on the accessory), especially around the PlayStation button, but also for the most component, it flawlessly suits your existing DualShock 4 experience that you’ve known for the last 6 or so years.

The switches can only be pressed on the external sides, which implies that it’s virtually impossible to hit them mistakenly. This suggests that you do have to get your finger positioning right, which does take a little obtaining utilized to, but it’s a far better solution than having the whole physical switch acting as the trigger. The switches really feel truly responsive, and also give off an enjoyable click, so you’re never ever questioning if you’ve in fact hit the buttons.

The attachment has 3 different profiles by default, and also you can set each button to be configured to a variety of 16 different uses (Triangle, Square, Cross, Circle, D-Pad Left, Up, Right, Down, L1, L2, L3, R1, R2, R3, Options, Absolutely Nothing Establish).

This might stunned you, however the attachment has an OLED display that is utilized to transform accounts and established profiles. Dual touching the screen will change in between the 3 profiles as well as a long press of the screen will permit you to hold down either switch to cycle through the 16 readily available presets. It is a bit over the top, but it does function well as well as means you do not have to utilize any type of exterior software program in order to establish your switch presets. It also just stays on for a few secs, which indicates that it does not drain the battery greater than required.

Over the weekend break I spent a good amount of time playing Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare with the Back Switch Accessory as well as soon as I obtained utilized to it, it definitely aided my gameplay. I was able to maintain my two thumbs on the analogue sticks, my forefinger and middle finger on the four triggers and utilize my ring fingers on the back switches to reload and alter tools. This meant that my thumbs never ever had to leave the analogue sticks.

I was locating myself returning to pressing the routine switch, as undoubtedly the DualShock has had mostly the very same buttons for 20 years, so it’s absolutely a modification to change your muscular tissue memory, but once I did, I found that my gameplay was considerably improved.

Now, the Back Switch Add-on is $50 and also clearly this is a quite decent amount of cash, however I ‘d most definitely recommend it’s worth the rate of updating if you play games that need you to have your fingers on a suitable amount of switches at any type of given time. I would certainly think that this is a way of making the DualShock 4 even more forwards suitable as well, so with any luck this won’t be repetitive when next-gen rolls around.