Gadgetory

so we have talked cheap controllers for the Xbox and we've talked pro controller to the ps4 we've not yet touched on cheap controllers for the ps4 now with Sony this is a little awkward because they don't really license out their products as much as Microsoft does there's really only one company that makes a lot of more affordable controller options and that's Horry one of the more recent releases being the hoary mini ps4 controller now this is controller that we have touched on a little bit before and the main idea is that it is a cheaper alternative to the DualShock 4 which is wired and it's specifically made for kids or people with smaller hands in mind which White has a grip design that's very similar to an older controller like an SNES versus the more recent grip designs we see in a lot of modern controllers now if you are used to that grip design you like that there's actually a whole lot of good stuff going on with this controller it's got great buttons I really like the sticks good d-pad the only stuff as it that is kind of bad is the shoulder buttons feel a little awkward they work but the pressing down mechanism just doesn't have the best feedback it does not have an actual working touch pad it does have a button that you can use for pressing in the touchpad but any games that use you know motion controls which is very rare nowadays aren't gonna work with this controller and something that it shares with all of the controllers in this list and that it does not have a headphone jack now on the ps4 this can potentially be not an issue at all for you because a lot of the official ps4 headsets are bluetooth but if you like using a wired headset that's going to be a big problem for any of these wired controllers now as I said Sony is very stingy with their licensing so if you want a controller that's not from Hori you're gonna have a bit of a tougher time you're not really gonna see stuff in many brick-and-mortar shops instead you're gonna have to turn to the internet for good old-fashioned controllers made in China from companies you have never heard of which is exactly what led me to the Loray go now this is actually ones that had higher reviews on Amazon which is why I checked it out and bought it and I gotta say while I did read good reviews I still went in with kind of this negative mindset of like I don't know it's unlicensed it's probably to be weird and while it does have its downsides it's actually surprisingly a really good controller all the buttons on the front face feel great good triggers the sticks are a little too stiff at first but after using them extensively it got a lot more loosened up it feels more natural still a little tighter than like an official ps4 controller but still very usable also it's very easy notice that this is clearly meant to be the same shell design as a dual shock for but also features these kind of rubberized grips that make it a lot more comfortable actually that being said this controller still definitely has some downsides aside from the obvious fact that it's well wired first off the d-pad is terrible it's fine enough we're gonna play a game where the d-pad has very minimal use like you just have hit up every now and then but if you're playing say a fighting game and you're like using D pads this thing is awful also well it does have a touch pad it actually doesn't do anything I mean the button works they fit Dave a hit a button for the touch pad but if you need any games that use the touchpad controls which is pretty rare nowadays this doesn't work at all so if you want to have that functionality avoid this that aside though if you're able to put up with that and all the usual downsides of a cheaper wired controller this is actually a surprisingly really good choice now of course I wanted to write more than just one unlicensed controller option and another one that really stood out to me visually was this one right here from snakebite I like the color design I like the fact that it uses symmetrical sticks like the ps4 controller but it actually has a grip style like the Xbox one a little bit good of a mix in here but the thing that kind of stops me from giving you a full official thought on this is that this one that I got has a defective home button so I can't actually log in and use it at all so I want to read some other reviews of it kind of see if this is a common issue with it or not and the consensus I'm seeing is that if you get a working one of these it's actually a really solid controller which I'm inclined to believe because honestly just feeling the sticks the buttons all would feel solid for a cheap third party especially unlicensed controller however not only were there people experiencing home button issues like me but a lot of people had defective shoulder buttons cables that were ripping apart all kinds of issues now of course this can't be covered by warranty you can ship it back get another one but by everywhere it's gonna be a little annoying to deal with that so if you want to take the risk this might be worth looking into but not so much now coming full circle we have another controller from Horry now unlike the earlier when we talked about the mini which was recent release this is actually one of the older ones they've done in fact this was the first officially licensed third-party controller for ps4 this is the FPS Plus and as the name implies it's designed with FPS games in mind now this controller is more expensive than the other ones on this list but it is still cheaper than an official DualShock floor and as a result it is a wired design that does feature some kind of minor pro controller options now first off design wise very clearly this is based more on the next box one controller you have the grip design like an Xbox one the sticks have been moved around and it uses a hair-trigger design rather than the more full pull you'll have on a ps4 which I do like this design better on here and asks for what kind of Pro features this controller has there's a couple that are very standard one that's a little more unique as for the standard ones you're going to read map some of the buttons on the fly you have a turbo button for being able to have rapid button presses on a single one but the more interesting one is this switch on the bottom here which actually allows you to change the right stick sensitivity so for FPS games specifically in mind you're able to do things like make slower stick movements if you need more precision aiming versus when you just need to move wildly about in other games the usefulness of this is a little more varied and just not as much so interesting design not as cheap but if you're looking for something specifically for FPS games pretty solid option now while this is from Horry like I said it's one of their older designs and it's not one of the really pushing anymore and part of that is due to a recent announcement that came out right as we were shooting this video turns out Tory's been working on a new wired ps4 controller where the very specific sales pitch is that it is a ps4 controller for people who like the Xbox one controller better in fact just even looking at it you can see the similarities now unlike the FPS Plus this is not going to feature any kind of this Wireless oh this is a wireless controller it's a Bluetooth this is a wireless Bluetooth controller and they haven't actually done official pricing just yet and it looks like it is gonna be released only in the UK for now so we're gonna try to import one or see when it's coming to North America so we can compare that price wise to all these controllers as well as just how it handles compared to a dual shock floor