![]() ![]() Eventually, technology overrides any of these squabbles by making simple things standard and dragging technology companies away from their old moneymakers. Funnily enough, it was after Microsoft found itself in the same situation as Sony in the PlayStation 3 days, showcasing that the company in the lead always seems to want to grab at more control than the underdog. It wouldn't be until the tail-end of the Xbox One years that Microsoft would switch off of its own unique wireless signal and embrace Bluetooth technology. ![]() In this one way, the PlayStation 3 really was ahead of its time. The DualSense is a Bluetooth controller, so the PS3 is happy to let it connect for sessions of last-gen games like Killzone. The PlayStation 4 was designed to be more restrictive, with only certain games supporting controllers other than the official Sony offerings. The PlayStation 3's Bluetooth support is expansive enough that it accepts controllers of all sorts as long as they also have Bluetooth. Not too long afterward, user LegacyZeroZ responded with the simple answer. Richard Masucci of ReviewTechUSA posted a tweet asking why the DualSense controller would work perfectly on a PlayStation 3, but not a PlayStation 4. Related: PS5 & Xbox Series X Headline Black Friday Gaming Deals At Best Buy This also leads to some interesting modern scenarios like the ones playing out in recent times with bored DualSense owners. At a time when the Xbox was on top and trying to sell everything proprietary, the PlayStation 3 had far-reaching Bluetooth support, letting players pull any old gadget out of storage as long as it supported the wireless tech. Part of that was stripped away as Sony created smaller and more budget-conscious editions of the console, but another part of that was baked into the PS3's core. The console's notorious Cell microprocessor made games hard to develop for at the time and makes the hardware tough to work with nowadays.įrom packing in a full PlayStation 2 in its innards to running Linux, the original PlayStation 3 wanted to be compatible with as much of a player's technology as possible. ![]() It's an ironic situation considering that the PlayStation 5 supports PlayStation 4 games, but no one seems to be able to reproduce the unique setup of the PlayStation 3. Players who have already picked up their DualSense for PlayStation 5 have discovered that they work perfectly well with the PlayStation 3, but not the PlayStation 4. ![]()
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