We were given a PS4 about a year and a half ago. As far as game systems go it's been pretty good, with one major exception. The R2 trigger button has broken 5 times on different controllers. This never happened on the PS3. The PS4 hinge is all plastic where as the DS3 had a metal hinge pin. While searching for a metal replacement like the ones available for Xbox I found many many posts of folks with similar issues. Within those posts are the PS4 defenders telling the sorry saps with broken triggers they need to "take better care of their stuff" and theirs work flawlessly. Looking at how the five of us at home use our DS4 controllers I know how ours break. It's me, I have fairly good size mitts compared to the rest of the family, a full finger bone longer than the nearest teenage boy. No matter how I try to hold the controller my finger wraps around the inner part of the R2 button and pulls down and to the right when used. It's the pulling to the right that causes the button to break the left hinge pin. Sony needs to fix this or allow some third party to fix it. I keep hoping one of the Chinese machine shops that send me spam will decide to start making metal replacement R2 buttons but so far my searches haven't found anything. In that the systems are a rounding error difference in performance things like controller durability are a deciding factor. I'm very tempted to switch over to the Xbox One just because of this. Are you listening Sony?
49 pages of folks with the same problem on the playstation forums.
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Peripherals-Support/DS4-R2-Trigger-Issues/td-p/42633627/page/49
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 1:9"_________________ I've had some nicknames used around the net since the 90's, however htese days they are more often taken then not when I want to reuse them. One such nick was "Last Post" and by the time I started farting around with Blogger someone had used it already, so this will be the "Almost Last Post" blog spot. Missed it by that much.
