With Flash memory becoming cheaper all the time we at PS4talk were wondering about the possibilities of the PS4 controllers having a small amount of memory built in to them. You may wonder why…well let me tell you. I regularly take my controller around to friends houses as we have multiplayer gaming sessions, and have sometimes wanted to have my save game perks with me that I have acquired on my own PS3.
Having memory built into the controller would be just like the good old days of PS1 and PS2 where you could take your memory card with you to share your game saves. Now, you may think that this can all be done online through your PSN ID, but there are people who apparently don’t have the internet! Having this built in memory would allow you to save particular preferences, costumes, levels etc so that they can be shared with friends. You could also perhaps save a few images on there, and use it as a USB pen drive replacement?
Do you think this is necessary for PS4 controllers? Would you benefit from such a feature, or do you think it’s a waste of time? Or what other specifications do you think the PS4 controller should feature?
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The idea is excellent!!
@rene: rather than excellent, I’d say it would be interesting to see.
Now, having said that, it would seem feasible to do it, giving players some ability to make their controllers the hosts to their preferences. This would mean that turning on a console with user profile and data stored into it could start the console with the controller’s set data.
I don’t know much about a controller-turned-pendrive though, it’s like changing from MP3 players back to portable CD players… too big to be a feasible thing to use. Also, it should be avoided, you don’t know what kind of virus will be made to wreck controllers, or even harm the consoles themselves. and without virus protection, it’d be hard to protect yourself from it.
@The Kiss
The idea isn’t to run executable files that are saved on it.
Just for it to look at the save game data.
Waste of time and money. Wont happen!
Be cheaper to buy a USB stick and do it that way. Not as if there expensive.
Sounds doable, but don’t you already have controller settings and ingame perks on memory cards and flash sticks.
As for my controller, Sony should retire the dualshock design, strike some sort of deal and adopt “Logitech’s Cordless Precision Controller” built 1st for the Ps2 and now the ps3, but heres the twist, use Saiteck’s “Cyborg module” design where gamers can alternate the positions of the left analog stick and digital dpad, choosing between both a playstation style orientation and x360 style asymmetric layout.(*why? for FPS of coarse) while you can switch back to Playstation layout to play everthing else. Checkout both contollers and see what I’m describing.