First things first, NACON desperately need to sort out their website. It’s quite frankly a terrible piece of design that isn’t intuitive, doesn’t load correctly, won’t auto-translate the entire page in several web browsers and, worst of all, requires your date of birth, along with other information to allow you to download the software that is required for the operation of the controller on the PC. Unfortunately, this is slowly becoming par for the course, typically as a way of marketing further products towards you via email, but the NACON experience was far from ideal.
Not only do you need to fill in a lot of information that I deem as entirely unrelated to a gaming controller, the form doesn’t actually function properly and will deny you any progress unless you select the “Votre BB Code” option, which defaults to “BB462”. I also wasn’t allowed to choose “Casual gamer” in the bottom left and had to swap to “Competitive” to sign up.
Overall, a truly ugly and unnecessary process to download an installation file that should be freely available.
Further to that, the download link for the software is reasonably well hidden within their website, instead of being hugely obvious like it should be. Overall, finding and installing the software was already frustrating and we hadn’t even begun to connect up the controller. Not a good start, at all.
To configure the controller for use on your PS4, unless you want to use it in its default state, you need to plug the controller into a computer with the Type-C cable and save profiles to it. There’s no smartphone application nor any configuration options on the PS4 itself.
That’s the same story for configuring it for PC use, it must be connected up with the cable. Profile adjustments can’t be made in the wireless mode. You must also have the controller, oddly, in the “PS4 Advanced Mode” and not in “PC Mode”, using the toggle on the back of the controller.
Once your controller is connected up, you launch the REVOLUTION UNLIMITED software, below is a short demo:
All things said, the software is decent and relatively easy to use but it still needs a bit of spit and polish before it’s up to scratch for a £169.99/$299.99 controller.
Not only do you need to fill in a lot of information that I deem as entirely unrelated to a gaming controller, the form doesn’t actually function properly and will deny you any progress unless you select the “Votre BB Code” option, which defaults to “BB462”. I also wasn’t allowed to choose “Casual gamer” in the bottom left and had to swap to “Competitive” to sign up.
Overall, a truly ugly and unnecessary process to download an installation file that should be freely available.
Further to that, the download link for the software is reasonably well hidden within their website, instead of being hugely obvious like it should be. Overall, finding and installing the software was already frustrating and we hadn’t even begun to connect up the controller. Not a good start, at all.
To configure the controller for use on your PS4, unless you want to use it in its default state, you need to plug the controller into a computer with the Type-C cable and save profiles to it. There’s no smartphone application nor any configuration options on the PS4 itself.
That’s the same story for configuring it for PC use, it must be connected up with the cable. Profile adjustments can’t be made in the wireless mode. You must also have the controller, oddly, in the “PS4 Advanced Mode” and not in “PC Mode”, using the toggle on the back of the controller.
Once your controller is connected up, you launch the REVOLUTION UNLIMITED software, below is a short demo:
All things said, the software is decent and relatively easy to use but it still needs a bit of spit and polish before it’s up to scratch for a £169.99/$299.99 controller.
