The Fixes Sony's DualShock 4 Controller Still Needs

An anonymous reader writes Sony's PS4 has been on sale for more than a year now, and while its revamped DualShock 4 controller has been critically lauded, it's not without its faults. A new article flags up the issues — both hardware and software — that Sony could look to improve. Almost all of the points — a bigger battery, more options for the lightbar, repositions Option button — could be fixed with a bit of elbow grease. After all, as the author points out, Sony has already quietly changed the model it ships with each console once already.

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Inclusiveity

[Anonymous Coward]

The controller needs to be more inclusive towards women. Vibrating controllers and smooth grips are a clear allusion to female sexuality and each PS4 controller thus represents a concrete manifestation of rape culture in which women and womens' sexualities are groped and objectified by a violent, uncaring male patriarchaly power ethos. Women feel adversion and exclusion towards phallic and gynopobic objects being misused and are thus excluded from full participation in the enjoyment of virtual and online expieriences by the PS4 controller.

For the record, I'm not saying that the PS4 controller is raping women, but it is contributing towards and environment in which violence and rape are seen as a acceptable method of control over girls and women in the living room, the household, and in wider society.