Chiming in to say It Takes Two is freaking amazing and so much fun to play even for non gamers

Honestly the best part of the Xbox controller is that it uses AA batteries.

If it dies, I can just swap my rechargeable AAs with the ones on my charger. And if the batteries deteriorate over time I can get replacements for cheap because of how ubiquitous AA are, it's a nice little right to repair feature.

Meanwhile, my PS controllers might as well be wired.

Just got the GoW bundle yesterday. I’d rather have this.

This is only my experience, but I can game for like 6+ hours with the PS5 controller without any issue. I don't pay that much attention, but I was playing GoW Ragnarok like 10 hours a day and aside from like an hour of charging while I ate some food, my controller never died.

It is kind of crazy.

There's good reason there isn't an all-radio chip on the market. They are hard to make and even harder to make without patent infringement and opening yourself up to billions in liability. If your all-in-one chip isn't good at the "all" part then it's worthless.

Radio is hard. Apple wasted a ton of money into building a cellular chip only to continue to buy from Qualcomm. Oh, and they also lost big in court too! Apple had originally planned on using their own cellular chips half a decade ago. I wouldn't venture to guess how much money they've already pissed away on this venture with nothing to show for it yet.

It only makes sense to even attempt this if you have an unlimited development budget, have a legal team that can tiptoe around the field of IP landmines, can wait years on end before going to market and even then only if you are confident you can sell a billion of these.

It's pretty much something that doesn't make sense for anyone on the planet but Apple or Huawei to attempt.

It's not going to let Apple make better gadgets. It's that Apple is at a scale where they find themselves tired of paying tens of billions of dollars for Qualcomm and Broadcom stuff. For other companies, a risky multi-billion dollar bet and a bunch of high profile IP lawsuits just to make a single component that isn't related to your core competency for one of your products instead of just buying it from a vendor is a terrible idea.

When there is profit to be made?????

Retail: No Overhead: Yes

Problem solved.

When I originally bought this adapter, only took me 2 minutes of googling to find it.

Apparently it’s worse than the ps4

What exactly do you propose they invest in? There aren't enough chips to go around - this is affecting everything from Raspberry Pis to car manufacturing.
The cause is a combination of Covid, trade restrictions (for really high end stuff) and some weather affecting the current fabrication plants.

There's only 2 things that can change this - one is more production out of the current semiconductor fabrication plants, the other is more plants. More plants are being build and in different locations to spread the risk around and I doubt the current plants are giving up on production capacity if they have a choice.

We have seen what happens when Apple developed their own butterfly keyboard because they didn't want to continue paying keyboard patents. What could go wrong? Expect the next series to have aweful connectivity.

I do, I even ordered a stupid adapter so I can use the 3.5mm!! Headphone jack, but now I can't charge my phone.

Ok, I'll take my spanking.

Is the battery on DS5 as bad as DS4? Honestly, I want to trade in my PS4 just for better battery life

Me too

Hi, I'm a person, I'm single, I use wires headphones. We exist ;)

Yes, the price Apple pays to produce these will go down.

Will we see the savings as consumers is another question.

Sorry I wasn't clear. My point was heat in a cpu is a by-product by design and yeah it's always going to be 100% wasted. I guess it heats our rooms, that's something.

But in an ICE where heat(thermal energy) is what is converted to movement.

Suggestion: When i was younger I played a little bit of a game with my brother called “Tale of Two Brothers”. Both characters are controlled with one half of the controller; the older brother is completely controlled with the right stick, buttons, and right triggers and the younger the left stick, directional pad, and left triggers. We ended up holding the controller between us while playing the game each with one hand. I’ve been thinking about getting it for me and my partner because I never finished it!

I can miss one kidney, two's pushing it a bit...

I don’t know a single person that still uses wired headphones with their phone.

ding ding ding

Nah they made it up

I'm sure so is everyone else in the market.

Exactly an 18 volt drill will fix that problem.