If I hadn't bought kick-ass wireless headphones, I guess the headphone/headset jack would have been a strong contender too. The jury's still out on the touchpad. It is pretty nifty in Killzone Shadowfall, but not revelatory. The internal speaker is a waste of space (because I wear headphones). The lightbar... I like the blue light somehow, like Rambo - doesn't mean I get it though (outside of the camera tracking thing, which I didn't buy into).

If you didn't have so many posts on here I'd swear this was some guerrilla marketing thing.

Its a nice controller, I like the headphone jack and overall shape of the controller. The lightbar is annoying if you have a reflective TV screen and it also consumes battery power, ditto for the touchpad which is also in kind of a weird spot and will probably lead to some awful gimmick controls in some games.

Still the best controller available though.

Just want to get the word out about Six-Axis actually being awesome this time around. I don't want developers to forget about it. It has its uses, and they should be properly explored and added to the standard vocabulary for PS4 control schemes.

That's what's been on my mind, and prompted me to make this thread.

The ability to get game audio (and mic input) out of the controller using a standard off-the-shelf headset is outstanding. After how much of a hassle it used to be to set up game audio through headphones while still supporting in-game voice chat, I really hope that feature catches on.

Kind of want to say none of that? I don't care about shiney lights, Six Axis is completely uninteresting to me, Touchpad doesn't seem especially responsive, I turned off my Wiimote's internal speaker years ago so that's not a plus in my books, and I'm not using the headphone jack.

I really like the headphone jack, but the battery life is just so abysmal.

Touchpad. Warframe uses it pretty well hot keying all of your powers to different directional swipes. Tomb Raider has some fun with it too allowing you to swipe up or down to light or extinguish your torch.

None, really. The controller is fantastic, but none if the bonus stuff you mentioned has really impressed me much.

For me it has to be the headphone jack on the controller. It sounds great, it's super-convenient, and it's the kind of thing I find myself amazed no one thought of before.

Typing with the tilt controls is pretty cool too, though-- it really helped when I was filling out all those Battlefield 4 crash reports.

I really like the internal speaker. Having audio logs (Killzone) and radio chatter (Warframe & Resogun) come out of there instead of the TV is awesome because then it doesn't overlap with character dialogue.

Touchpad feels natural, like it's always been on PS consoles. Besides that, it's just used for the map in Warframe & Don't Starve so I'd like to see more use for it.

Headphone jack is a good idea but I only use it if I'm in a party chat, live streaming or in my new ritual every Saturday, using voice commands with it to start a game when I'm setting up my grapes and liquor because that's drunk nights for me. I can't wait for Sony to implement more voice commands, it'd be much faster to get around, even though it's already fast, I just like using it. I'm lazy.

Light bar is cool but ultimately useless. I never see it unless I want to see it, reason being is because it's on a downward slope. It doesn't reflect off my TV either so it doesn't bother me. It's just a waste of battery at this point. At least the colors are nice looking though.

Sixaxis is much more improved, it's crazy. I use it to send messages because it feels faster then typing with the D-pad. Haven't seen it used in games though, hope we get some implementation with it soon.

Overall, it's a fantastic controller. Triggers are great, buttons feel clicky, and the overall shape is nice. My only gripes are the battery and the Share & Options buttons are to skinny. Always bothers me when I press them.

That headphone Jack makes the Xbox One seem like a console from fifty years ago. I can't rationalise it in my mind but it's the way my heart feels.

Being able to plug in any pair of regular ass headphones into the controller and get full audio is so unbelievably convenient and god dammit I can't understand why this isn't in the other consoles.

Also, I really really wish that the lightbar was an optional feature. I didn't buy the camera so that part of it's functionality is useless to me and it being on a downward slope means that I can't see it unless I'm deliberately looking at it, so anything a game would use it for would, again, be useless to me. As it stands it's just there to make the battery life hella short.

The swipe up to light your torch in Tomb Raider is pretty cool. Speeds up an action and makes contextual sense.

None of those but I will say the overall ergonomics of the controller is what I really like the most.

I have always been a fan of the Dual Shock because I was used to it. I bough my first PS in 1996 and have not looked back. When I moved onto PS4 I found I liked the Dual Shock 4 but I as not really over-the-moon about it...it just felt very good.

But, just yesterday I had to turn my PS3 on again, first time in months, and JESUS that Dual Shock 3 is tiny. I was shocked at how tiny that old controller felt in my hands. I have average sized hands, but I can well imagine how people with big hands felt trying to play PS3. So, for me the SIZE is what matters most.

I never used headphones when playing games until I bought a new monitor so I don't have to take the PS4 out to the lounge to play. Sure there was an audio jack behind the monitor but it was much more comfortable having my headphones plugged in to the controller.

Since I use these controllers on my PC, the touchpad is by far the coolest feature to me, being able to control the mouse when in clunky interfaces is nice without having to pull out a 2nd device.

Six-axis. Mainly because it makes typing messages with a controller so much faster for me

The texture on the shoulder buttons, it feels so good.

i actually like the lightbar, it makes the controller look cool and it doesn't reflect off my tv or anything.

The headphone jack is awesome. Love being able to play on the big TV and just have audio right into my ears so I don't bother my wife or wake up the kid. Best feature they added.

My favorite bonus feature would be official PC drivers.

The squeaky triggers

@lukeweizer: It already works natively, "official" drivers are not needed like with XBox controllers that have no native support.

I'm confused. Then what are the unofficial drivers that don't work that great that I always hear about?

@lukeweizer: You obviously havnt tried our version if you dont think they work well then (http://dsdcs.com/DS4Tool). But they are to emulate a 360 controller using a DS4 Controller, because some companies only release their games to be XInput compatible (Microsofts scheme) vs utilizing the Direct Input mapping which was the industry standard until MS had to stick their greedy mitts into it.

The headphone jack is the only feature that really stands out for me. The touchpad and sixaxis inputs are totally serviceable, but I haven't been overly impressed with how games have been using them so far.

Cool! I'll give it a try some time. Thanks!

I love the touchpad when I'm using it on a PC, and the headphone jack is really nice to have, but overall the main reason I like is that they improved everything, the start and select buttons aren't mushy anymore, the buttons feel nicer, the sticks are more comfortable and the triggers are actually usable.

Definitely the headphone jack for me. I own some Klipsch Image x10s and it's a great gift to be able to just have that going wherever I am, whether it's the couch or the computer desk or a quick trip to the kitchen. On PS3 I had to plug the headphones into the speakers directly if I needed to be discreet which meant my only option was right in front of the TV. I've always been hugely skeptical of wireless audio for whatever reason, but the sound quality of that jack is great. I just wish there was a system level / easily accessible way to turn the volume up or down. Sometimes I could use it just a notch or two louder.

My second controller in 6 months has just started to show noticeable wear on both sticks, though. It took the one in the box just two or three days and this one a couple months, but so far I'd say the quality of the rubber on the sticks is my one big complaint. For how expensive these things are it's a shame they're also the first controllers I've ever experienced serious issues like this with (DualShock 3s would get irregular inputs on random games like NBA 2K13 and Skate 2 after a few years, but not every game, which was strange).