{"id":122965,"date":"2018-01-16T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122965"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:34:08","slug":"new-ps4-controller-pleases-xbox-one-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/122965-new-ps4-controller-pleases-xbox-one-fans","title":{"rendered":"New PS4 controller pleases Xbox One fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things that can get people hot under the collar like console-allegiance debates \u2013 the Xbox vs Playstation battle has been raging ever since the PS2 and original Xbox became direct rivals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest differences, besides game library exclusives, is the individual controllers that the two different manufacturers use. Ever since the Xbox was initially released, its unique asymmetrical placement of the left analog stick won over many fans, and a lot of gamers swear by that choice.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you\u2019re a PS4 owner but you enjoy that particular analogue stick orientation, you\u2019re a little unlucky \u2013 until now. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2018\/01\/11\/introducing-the-onyx-wireless-controller-from-hori-available-for-ps4-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playstation has announced<\/a> that\u00a0Hori<em>,<\/em>\u00a0an official Playstation licensed console accessory manufacturer, will soon be releasing the PS4 <em>Onyx<\/em> controller that features the Xbox controller layout, switching the position of the D-Pad and left analog stick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-122966\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Hori-Onyx-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Hori-Onyx-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Hori-Onyx-2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Hori-Onyx-2-768x750.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly identical to the DualShock 4 controllers, though, as it doesn\u2019t have the light bar at the back, or a built-in 3.5mm jack, so interested gamers will need to make a little bit of a compromise if they want to use it as their primary PS4 controller. It\u2019s due to launch on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> January in the UK, but we\u2019re still waiting for confirmation of availability in other markets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/gadgets\/hybrid-ps4xbox-one-controller-hitting-the-market-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to 10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122327-10-games-we-cannot-wait-to-play-in-2018.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two worlds collide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":122967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[9148,13780,25603,25604,5145,1870,1853,243,10065],"class_list":["post-122965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-controller","tag-controllers","tag-hori","tag-hori-onyx","tag-peripherals","tag-playstation","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}