I've had the same happening to one of my dual shock 4s. I've seen Youtube videos of people pressing hard on the stick while blowing at the opening, pressing hard and moving to all angles, or in the extreme case, pulling apart to rectify the issue.
In the case of pulling apart, at this stage, might be worth looking at a dual sense controller if they end up working on PS4.
My understanding is you need ps4 controllers to play ps4 games on ps5 which is utterly ridiculous *****. We are all meant to stockpile controllers that are going to become obsolete so we can play old games??
Anyway as for your question I get controller drift too and taking apart the controller is a good fix but be careful it’s a bit fiddly.
As our other friends said, your best bet is probably to take it apart and clean it carefully. I personally don't trust myself with this stuff, so I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I was gifted a white DualShock 4 last year, and while it worked perfectly, the past 6-7 months it's starting to drift and have analog lag? (as in, I move the left analog to right all the way, but it doesn't recognize it that way so my character starts to walk slowly right instead of jogging). Blowing in it worked damn good in my case. Idk why but it keeps happening every now and then but just goes away when I blow on it.
@Arnna you are incorrect. You CAN use a dualshock 4 to play ps4 games on a ps5 however it is not REQUIRED. You can play anything installed on a ps5 with the included dualsense.
I've got a weird issue on my DS4 where if I pull the L2 trigger down then it seems to somehow activate forward movement. It's particularly annoying on games where you want to stand still, like you are close to the edge of something, while trying to shoot and you have to pull down L2 to aim. I've been putting up with it for years but can't wait to get hold of my PS5 so I get a new controller.
Another thing, now that they've released the remote app to play PS5 on the PS4 doesn't that mean we will effectively be able to play PS5 games using a DS4?
It's not as extensive as The Series X controller literally just being a cross gen pad across both XB1 and Series consoles, but I'm honestly surprised Sony thought to actually let us use our existing controllers for backwards compatibility in the first place
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