Loser
Why did they add this touch pad? It's just a glorified select button
Wyatt Young
Jeremiah Walker
Give me a single reason why a glorified select button is worse than a select button. You can't.
Also it's up to 3 buttons so it's more versatile.
And the handful of games that actually use the touch funtions well make it neat (mainly EDF quick chat wheel, or GR2's mode select), and it's good on PC where you can use it as a mousepad for quick selections on emus or some MMOs.
Matthew Nelson
Unironically the best addition to pad.
Liam Barnes
Because there is/was a whole generation growing up with touchscreens.
Jaxson Evans
It's like some sort of laptop mousepad. I can see it's useful applications but it's so small, sensitive, and unwieldy I seldom see a point.
Chase Barnes
The idea that the touch pad would ever be used for aiming was absolutely idiotic, but it's become a fairly decent multi-functional button which has light-touch, heavy-touch, hold, left side, right side, and swiping in 4 different directions
It just feels right for opening a map in any game.
Thomas Lee
I've heard that it's the reason for the shitty 4 hour battery life, is this true?
Hudson Lopez
>The idea that the touch pad would ever be used for aiming was absolutely idiotic
Yes, that's why no one ever even thought of that besides you. Seriously, I've NEVER heard that idea before last minute when I read your post.
Aren't you talking about gyro?
Samuel Allen
Yeah, I use it for the mouse cursor in FFXIV. Actually clicking things with it is a nightmare but it's useful for hovering over things for tooltips etc.
Robert Reed
There's aiming support using the touch pad for some shitty 2013/2014 early PS4 title which I've forgotten the name of. Basically when every gimmick was being used for about 2 years until everyone forgot about it. Can't remember the last time I heard the controller-speaker being used, e.g.