Comment on Sony is reportedly set to release an updated PS5 DualSense controller with a removable battery | VGC
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
You mean easier to remove? The battery is already removable. It’s not glued or soldered in place. But you do need a spatula thingy to open the shell and actually get to it.
In all my many years of gaming and superfluous amount of controllers, I’ve rarely had problems with a Sony internal battery. When I have, I simply opened up the controller and replaced it (mind you I needed to source the battery). But its never been an issue and a fairly easy process.
The controllers I’ve always had any kind of issue with ensuring I had charged and/or replacement batteries has been Xbox controllers.
I only know up to the 360, which had the battery casing on the outside you could easily remove with a clip latch. But it also had notoriously bad power issues, not iust with the controllers but the console itself. Faults in the PSU and overheating were the two most common causes of the RROD.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The term “removable battery” typically means there’s no disassembly required. Or at least nothing any more complicated than a battery cover. As much as it’s an easy process for those with even minor mechanical skills but your initial wording creates the sort of slippery slope that led to us needing a government to step in so that phones and other devices would have removable batteries again.