An officially licensed controller designed for younger gamers.
We’re pleased to introduce a new controller from Hori, the officially licensed Mini Wired Gamepad for PlayStation 4, designed with younger gamers in mind. This controller is 40% smaller than the DualShock 4 and has a simple form factor with a flat design that makes it easy to fit into smaller hands. Best of all, the controller has a low price of $29.99 USD (MSRP) / $39.99 CAD (MSRP), making it a great purchase for companion play on games like Knack 2.
The Mini Wired Gamepad provides the essential functions to play most PS4 games while still providing a great gaming experience — that includes the right and left sticks, R1/L1/R2/L2 buttons, directional buttons, and action buttons. Certain touch pad inputs can be simulated via the left or right sticks.
The wired controller includes a 10ft cable, making for an easy plug-and-play experience. While this controller does not include some features of DualShock 4, including a touch pad, light bar, stereo headset jack, speaker, vibration, or motion sensing, it comes at a great value and helps open gaming to the whole family. Find out more about the gamepad here.
The blue Mini Wired Gamepad launches across U.S. and Canada this holiday. Let us know if you plan on picking one up for co-op in the comments below.
Conveniently wired so your kids can trip on it and drop your PS4 Pro on the floor.
I hope that wire is nice and long so my son can wrap it around his neck. Sweet.
Wire controllers, welcome to 1999.
Will the Mini Wired Gamepad be compatible with the PS3 and PSTV as a controller?
I think it’s a nice idea and it’s always good to have more options.
By the way if your son likes tying stuff around its neck they’re gonna find a way regardless. It’s not the controllers fault :P
LeMatster that’s so true lol…. but then i read further comments and damn ya’ll some pessimistic weirdos out there.
I need a a controller for my arthritis. My hands are killing me now after gaming for an hour.
Wireless would be nice but it’s not like there aren’t 5 generations of consoles with wired controllers and children somehow avoided strangulation.
Amazing idea… If it were not implemented wrong.
I need a small controller for my kid… But I will not buy a wired controller with the risk of pulling the wire or something happening to the console.
Pass until a wireless version is available for my kid.
Thank you. My son will love it. Unbelievable comments from other parents. While kids are playing. You still have responsibility to look after them. Disconnect controller after it’s use.
I’m sorry if your parenting skills are that bad they try to kill themselves purposely or yank and trample cords. Numerous people on here are older and played games in their youth without this problem. Perhaps instill values and responsibility. Though I find that a hard thing to get across to young parents today.
Not in a negative manor but my son is 2 and he’s been playing with my retro Nintendo’s and ps1, 2, 3 and 4 and he’s understood the concept of how to treat a system.. if a child gets harmed is it really the childs fault? These systems aren’t toys.. and this is why we teach them early how to basically not be stupid..
P.s. it’s nice to teach these youngyans a thing or two about our old days with wired controllers.
salesmunn, thats nice talking bout your son dying on your controller. You should be banished for life from PSN for that horrific comment.
@Salesmunn – As others here have said, almost every generation of consoles came with wired controllers and we managed to squeak by without some epidemic of children strangling themselves with them. However, I have a great remedy for your kid – it requires parenting, though, so I don’t know if you’ll want to get into all that:
If you catch him wrapping a cord around his neck, you take it from him, then say “don’t do that” and then WATCH HIM so he doesn’t do it again. If he does, repeat the steps above. He’ll eventually stop. Or just stick with your wireless controller that came with your console and pretend you live in a world where the big bad wired controllers don’t hunt down children at night.
@LeMatster: Stepping over objects that may present a tripping hazard is an awesome skill. Definitely take some time away from gaming to pay attention to your child and try teaching them at some point. Or just, you know, don’t buy the controller and let everybody with fully formed brains and motor skills enjoy them.
Exactly what i was thinking. Getting my 3.5 year old to play the mini snes has been awesome but the wire is a pain in the bum. i shall wait for a wireless option i think.
Eh, it’s a ten foot cable. That’s long enough to make a noose. You know what they say about kids who wrap the cables around their necks right?! They don’t get to grow up and have cable wrapping kids of their own. Natural selection at its finest. :) please laugh. It’s a joke.
Yeah my 5 year old son doesn’t play on his own. I’m right there with him. Accidents may happen but if you’re a parent you need to be a parent. People get this now before it’s ripped off the shelf because some mom or dad is day drinking with her meth dealer watching real housewives of whatever or Pawn stars and their kid dies because they aren’t being a parent, sues and this gets pulled