AA Batteries in controllers have got to go, this is the year 2020.

This is ridiculous. I remember the 90's and using 6 AA Batteries to charge up my Sega Game Gear. Man was it a hassle. Putting them in the thing, getting them in the right position ones gotta be upside down the other's straight up and hoping they all still had power and snapped in correctly.

Checking to see which battery was dead with finger checker to see how much power was left in each battery. Holy shit I can't believe this stuff is still around in 2020 I don't fking believe it. Nothing uses AA batteries anymore except the X-Series controller.

My Flashlight is all rechargeable now with my phone I don't understand why this is still a thing in controllers. I hate having to make a ton of room for AA batteries in a shelf and then you forget which ones are still brand new or are dead or almost dead its a mess in there.

You got buy them at the store or setup recharge station for the AA batteries im not doing this anymore. I always forget to buy new AA batteries too and then they run out all the time and then im screwed.

I have to get in my car drive to a store pick them up this takes forever its easier to just charge up the controller and play with it corded for a bit. Jesus. Tons of big youtubers are saying they hate AA batteries too are all buying the play and charge kit and criticizing microsoft for this, and I agree with them. AA batteries are insulting you take them out you throw them away and you get play and charge kit.

AA batteries are not cheap either they will add up over time its like 5 bux for an 8 pack your paying a huge tax here everytime you go out to buy new ones to keep playing.

The Elite 2 creator said an internal battery helped him improve the controller and take it to the next level why the hell isn't regular one taking it to the next level yet?

This isn't trolling at this point, it's just tired rhetoric. This needs a lock.

Only plus side i see with batteries is that you don't have to wait to charge...sometimes it's just easier to pop them in.

The Game Gear had a fluorescent bulb in it. If you do the LCD mod you can quadruple the battery life.

I don't get the hate for the design. I love being able to pop in a researchable cell, swap it out for a fresh one, etc. X1 controllers are cheap and have decent battery life anyway.

Personally I don't like the layout of X1 controllers, just used to the symmetric sticks and d-pad location. There's nothing wrong with having options tho.

8BitDo SN30 Pro+ is the best all-around controller anyway. Sony and MS both lose.

Also:

• Replace all the batteries at once, you mad man
• Get a multi-meter if you're going to be checking batteries like a mad man

Who buys batteries anymore? You can get rechargeables, brand name rechargeables, at any dollar store. Charger and 4 batteries for under 5 bucks.

I'm 99% of the time using a long cord with it plugged in on my PC. I only use it wireless when im playing on my TV so its always fully charged.

I don't have room to setup battery recharge station in my house. Imagine having a guest come over and they go oh whats that?

Oh that's just my AA battery recharge station for my xbox series x controller. People would be like WTF your still using those it'd be embarassing.

Disagree. AA batteries last incredibly long compared to lithium ion charges... When they die out, you just replace them. When a lithium ion battery dies out, you normally replace the entire unit. Most of the controller batteries are proprietary, so difficult to replace.

Yeah... So huge. Plop it in your bottom socket and go nuts.

I will actively go out of my way to get a controller that uses AA batteries over proprietary packs which leave me tied to one producer, paying whatever stupid rates they want to charge for them. Don't even get me started on the companies that don't even let you remove their proprietary packs - what a backhanded way to recoup hardware losses, tying their controller to a hard to replace item which has a limited number of charges. It's like you're complaining about a technology that's too time tested, and too universally accessible.

Heck, I'm still using original XBOX 360 controllers - damn near 15 years old - on my tower PC to play Steam games. You know why they still work? Because I can change the batteries so damned easily. These controllers are likely older than some of the posters on this board and you're saying "Well, we really need to do away with the technology that lets THAT happen..."Heck, if I could get a cellular phone that ran on AA batters, I would.

2 things wrong with this statement. 1. You haven't turned on you PS in over a year and your Xbox is in a closet soooooooo wtf are you playing it on? 2. You'd rather play on a controller like it's 1996 with a wire?

Wow if this doesn't prove you're a fakeboy nothing does

Sometimes my controller wastes battery all the time I don't always switch it off every time I stop playing a game and it keeps draining that AA. Its costly. It's probably cheaper to just rebuy another ps4 controller when that battery dies compared to get AA batteries every time those die.

My PS4 controller still last just as long as they have since the start and i've had them for 5 years now internal batteries dying or not lasting long is not been issue for 5 years yet for me going strong.

You don't need a charging station for the packs.... It charges when you plug in the controller.......

.................

You are reeeeeally trying at this point, which is also embarrassing.

@ProtossRushX: You know what a AA recharging station looks like? I don't think so because if you did you would know how small they are. So you're either blatantly trolling or you really are that stupid.

We all know you're a fakeboy but are you stupid as well? That's a serious question.

Nope. I like having the option myself. If you don’t want to use batteries then get yourself a rechargeable battery pack. Problem solved. 🤷‍♂️

So AA batteries just recharge when you plug the controller in? I've never seen that before. Does the x-series controller come with re-charge cable cause my xb1 didn't my ps4 did.

They'll keep making AA batteries for at least another hundred years. They'll stop making PS4 controllers in the first few years of the PS5.

I've had my wireless keyboard over two years and am still using the same AAA batteries with the same charge. I don't use it for all my computing, but a good amount. I'm saying they've never been recharged.

Like I said dude my iPhone and my Samsung phone both use internal batteries my iphone is 7 years old now and lasts just as long as it did when I bought it the fear mongering of it loses battery over time is a stretch when im using the same phone 7 years later and it lasts even longer than my new samsung phone does.

You've' said you bought the play and charge kit why do you want the option if you just pay extra for the kit wouldn't you rather it just comes with it instead of paying extra per controller?

I tell ya what's ridiculous: I bought a four pack of AA 2500 mah Duracell rechargeables for my One controllers and wow they last so long! I charge lasts as long as at least three cycles with the DS4 controller.

So yeah if it's better, it's better.

You can get an Insignia pack for $10CAD. Or, you can pay the same price for a weaker console...

Thats weird i've had AA batteries very quickly in my 360/xb1 controller with heavy gaming i've seen them die in day's

Pretty sure my black PS4 controller has a dead battery. I was using it with my PC.

Wouldn't you have to turn on your consoles to drain controller batteries? AANNNDDD controllers will automatically shutoff after a period of inactivity. Do you ever know what you're talking about?

Well it should since you never actually use it but then again how would you know since you haven't turned on you PS4 in over a year.

MS is starting to finally get with the times... their $180 Elite 2 controller comes with a proper internal battery. I guess it saves them a lot of money by making the consumer buy the battery instead of including one. If any company wants to know how it's done, look at the Nintendo controller. It's hard to imagine putting batteries in anything other than maybe a tv remote once a year.

Plus it only costs $12.

Yes stuff does auto turn off over time, its not instant I never said it was, and I do have a lot of games beat like Bloodborne on PS4 I've used my PS4 plenty in the past right now I'm mainly gaming on PC till PS5 comes out on my GTX 1070. Why would I still play games on PS4 when my graphics card is way better on PC?

That's a lie. Rechargeable batteries will start to degrade with each charge little by little, that's unavoidable and a fact. You're really reaching at this point fakeboy.

How many threads have you made on this topic in last few months?

We are talking about rechargeable packs..... Once you pop them in the controller works like any other with a lithium-ion battery. It's a micro usb cable. You have, like, so many if you've bought any electronics in the last 10 years.

Or use one of the two cables that came with the rechargeable battery packs you bought on Amazon.

I have dozens of them. And I have those packs and they work well.

You should get the 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ anyway. It's waaay better than the X1 or PS4 controller and it comes with a pack.

I'd also like to state that the PS4 controller has a decent layout and design, but the light and crappy battery life kill any good features it might have. They really screwed that up.

@lundy86_4:

Why because you are OK with MS using AA batteries?

Come on man would a surface come without rechargeable battery?

Why should the xbox controller be any different?

So, just in case you want to know a bit about the science behind why your claims about your seven year old phone are obvious lies, and why you are all but completely absent of credibility:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a23135177/lithium-ion-battery-degradation-study-nature/

You realize plugging in a controller gives you less latency right rather than using it wireless? A lot of xbox guys said to just use ethernet cable on X-Series since Wi-Fi is slow as crap there still using last gen wi-fi on x-series. It's the same thing you should plug in your controller for better performance, all my devices on PC are plugged in I don't use a lot of wireless stuff on PC.

"Putting them in the thing, getting them in the right position ones gotta be upside down the other's straight up and hoping they all still had power and snapped in correctly."

Oh man. this is legendary.

I'm not interested in the forthcoming meltdown.

@ProtossRushX said:

This is ridiculous. I remember the 90's and using 6 AA Batteries to charge up my Sega Game Gear. Man was it a hassle. Putting them in the thing, getting them in the right position ones gotta be upside down the other's straight up and hoping they all still had power and snapped in correctly.

Checking to see which battery was dead with finger checker to see how much power was left in each battery. Holy shit I can't believe this stuff is still around in 2020 I don't fking believe it. Nothing uses AA batteries anymore except the X-Series controller.

My Flashlight is all rechargeable now with my phone I don't understand why this is still a thing in controllers. I hate having to make a ton of room for AA batteries in a shelf and then you forget which ones are still brand new or are dead or almost dead its a mess in there.

You got buy them at the store or setup recharge station for the AA batteries im not doing this anymore. I always forget to buy new AA batteries too and then they run out all the time and then im screwed.

I have to get in my car drive to a store pick them up this takes forever its easier to just charge up the controller and play with it corded for a bit. Jesus. Tons of big youtubers are saying they hate AA batteries too are all buying the play and charge kit and criticizing microsoft for this, and I agree with them. AA batteries are insulting you take them out you throw them away and you get play and charge kit.

AA batteries are not cheap either they will add up over time its like 5 bux for an 8 pack your paying a huge tax here everytime you go out to buy new ones to keep playing.

The Elite 2 creator said an internal battery helped him improve the controller and take it to the next level why the hell isn't regular one taking it to the next level yet?

Bro, I'm so sorry your parents cut off your AA battery allowance, bro. I know you're a big Xbox guy, bro. this sucks bro.

Then how would your batteries dies so fast then? When the controller isn't being used and sitting idle it won't use very much energy so the batteries will last a very very long time. Admit you lied and that you're just trolling fakeboy.

By in the past do you mean you haven't touched your PS4 in over a year? In the past is appropriate.

Aren't you the one talking about how great Sony is all the time fakeboy? Playing only Wow doesn't make you a PC gamer.

If true, then stop complaining about the competition using AA batteries, and constantly use your controller plugged in... Jesus.

Yeah well why buy some rando one when you get the official xbox play and charge kit? I knew about the play and charge kit those should come standard with every x-series controller. IT was opening post I know about those battery packs the thing is they cost money.

@ProtossRushX: Nope. I want good battery life, choice and options.

AA batteries are fine, it's bad energy management and poor battery life that have to go.

You realize that's still using a controller like it's 1996 right? You know, something you're complaining about when it comes to the Xbox controller......out dated. You're not at a level where you'd even notice the lag and you're most definitely not a pro competitive gamer so why would it matter?

You can experience milliseconds of lag on wi-fi and even more depending on the distance and location of the router. Controllers are almost always just a few feet away and within direct line of site. The lag difference could be huge so it's not even a legit from your point of view.

Admit this is a trolling thread fakeboy

BATTERY WARS.

No strong opinion on it either way, though I did have a DS4 shit the bed on holding a charge this gen. That sucked. I do think it's better to have options.

That being said, it's extremely rare for me to game wireless.

@ProtossRushX: Yep, I have the play and charge kit. I think that it’s better having the slot open for optional power supply then to have the internal battery coming already inside the controller.

Are the mods on holidays? as we've been over this shit a 1000 times, can't believe i'm saying this but i agree with lundy, time to lock it up, along with protoss.

Does your phone use AA batteries too or you just like the option only for controllers?

Considering the DS4's infamously arse battery life... ...I think I'll stick to something I can slap a couple of Eneloops into.

@kingtito: ‘That's a lie. Rechargeable batteries will start to degrade with each charge little by little, that's unavoidable and a fact’

True, but it’ll take years before they’re reduced to nothing. I still cycle through the rechargeables I bought for my X1 at launch. They might not be as strong as they once were, but they still hold a charge for about a week or so. Plus, you can get new batteries for about a buck at any dollar store and about 4 at a Best Buy.

AAA batteries over the ps4 controllers abysmal battery life.