What is going on, everybody?
It is Mike, welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
I am super excited to have you here today because I am
unboxing some PS5 controllers that I got my hands on.
Now, I'm not really just excited to unbox
these because, you know, without having a PS5 unit,
they may or may not be completely usable.
And I'm going to see if I'm able to integrate it or
connected to iPad OS iOS 14 and see how well it works.
Let's get started
Now,.
I am super excited to unbox these today.
I ordered these probably the day that they were announced at
Target and I was able to get two of them.
So I'm super excited and I can't wait to open them and
actually play the five.
Now, what's special about these dual sense controllers is that
they have adaptive trigger.
So as you're pulling down on the trigger, the amount of that
you pull down is going to go increase the force.
So like in a game like if you're in a racing game,
like actual racing, what should happen is that as I go ahead
and pull down on the trigger, I might be able to go ahead and
get more acceleration.
I might be able to go ahead and get to more braking for that
type of game in a shooter game where the
first-person shooter, I might go ahead and increase the
number of rounds that I'm shooting.
So this should have a lot of cool features built into it.
Now, let's go and unbox this little sticky here.
All right, we're going to put that right here, and here is
the box,
it's a white box.
Oh, my gosh.
So let's open that up.
Don't attitude and don't intend to.
Wow, this is heavy.
Holy cow.
This feels really heavy compared to the
PS4 controller.
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I just went back to my entertainment center and I got
the PS4 controller and I also got my
Nintendo switch controller.
And this is surprisingly heavy, like,
holy cow, this is surprisingly heavy.
It's got a good feel to it.
I like the way that the grips are like the way I mean,
the buttons.
These buttons don't feel too different.
These are the controller
the D-PAD had and the the buttons feel much different
because it's like this plastic texture.
I guess looking at this, it does have a nice feel
to it.
And I don't know, it feels nice, doesn't feel,
I guess, remarkably different,
but it certainly is heavier.
Now, if I compare it to my my Nintendo switch controller,
this is the first party
and this is the pro controller.
This feels like it's got the same weight to it.
This looks pretty cool here.
Now, let's see here.
Are we can we powered on
Oooh
Look at that.
That looks pretty sick.
Now I'm going to put you in Perring mode and let's
see here, OK, we are impairing mode and I was able to enter
pairing mode by holding the PlayStation button and this
button in the top left-hand corner.
You are turned off as a timed out.
So let's hold down the PlayStation button in the share
button and we are in pairing mode or at least appears
to be.
I have done a lot of work here trying to get this to work.
So I've, you know, put the device in pairing mode by
holding down the PlayStation button and then the share
button and you'll see actually that's just turning on
it again.
But if you hold on the PlayStation button in the share
button simultaneously, this touchpad will flash blue,
you know, intermittently.
See if you could see here
there's a connection request for my Mac, but that's not
what I want.
Cancel.
I don't want to request my Mac.
So I'm going to hold down the PlayStation button and the
share button for five seconds.
Three.
All right.
You see here, it's in pairing mode, but it never
appears on my device.
Now, I did several things.
I try to use just a very kind of inexpensive USB-C cable,
which that will charge the controller, which is not
exactly what I'm looking for.
Used a better USB key cable that supports power and data
that did not work.
And this never responds to pairing on the iPad, I thought
was maybe that I was running a different version.
I was running a beta version of iPad OS on this iPad, but I
tried going up to another iPhone, another iPhone
that was running release software, and that did
not work either.
So it's a little bit disappointing that I can't get
the PlayStation controller to work at this moment because I
really wanted to play Asphalt Racing today.
I don't know what it is.
I just want to play actual racing.
But that is again, disappointing in the least.
OK, so I have a Thunderbolt cable and a plug that in here.
And I'm going to plug that in here.
That doesn't work either.
So
so plugging in a Thunderbolt cable to this doesn't
do anything, it's it's just disappointing.
I really wish that there was a way to get this to work.
Let's try I'll try one more cable.
All right.
This is just going to be another USB-C cable that
supports power and data.
And we're charging you could see that er it's charging,
it shows that it's charging.
But let's see what happens if a power line
won't even power on.
Yeah.
So holding down when while it's charging, holding this
down will not do anything
and I can't put it in the pairing mode.
So boo hoo to me, because I really wanted to connect this
and I wanted to be able to play actual racing today using
this controller, not just from you know, I didn't have the
expectations that this controller would be supported
magically out of the gate.
And I'd get all these new cool features with the adapter
triggers and the enhanced haptics.
I wasn't that naive to think that, but I did want to
get a sense of gameplay with this controller because, again,
I do love playing PlayStation.
I guess I just love playing video games, period.
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but if you're a
hardcore gamer, let me know in the comments below.
I do consider myself, I guess, a very serious, casual gamer
where I've spent a lot of time playing video games.
But that is it for me.
Now, if you are able to get this work, let me know in the
comments below because as of right now, today is the
2nd of November.
I cannot get this dual sense controller to work with iPad
OS 14, not two or fourteen point one.
So I'm sad.
I am like, this is tech 24/7 TV.
I'll catch you guys in the next one.