Touch Pad
Sitting right in the middle of the Dualshock 4 is the giant rectangular touch pad. It serves as the controller’s select button, but there is much more to it than meets the eye. Sure, you can give it a tap to get to a game’s menu screen or check the score in a multiplayer match, but many games have taken full advantage of its features.
You can swipe in various directions, which serves as an additional input. Not only can you touch for easy access, but games like The Witcher 3 allow players to swipe up to immediately access the map and bring up other menu functions with ease, instead of fumbling through multiple menu screens. No matter how you look at it, it’s just a great addition to the PS4, making the Dualshock 4 an even better tool with which to control the console. And we don’t want to see it go anywhere.
