PlayStation 5

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with PlayStation 5, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

No remote button for PS button, forcing a convoluted macro workaround via TV menus2025-12-15
Share button gets pressed by accident and triggers an unwanted function2025-04-02
New joined d-pad is terrible; can't cleanly separate directional presses2024-08-07
Popups can't be dismissed without a mouse, forcing constant keyboard and mouse use while gaming2021-11-09
Forces users to re-enter the current date every time they boot offline2020-10-07
Opening the console needs many steps that users couldn't figure out without a video2020-10-07