You better hope all the kids’ parents keep their credit cards locked up in a faraday cage. All it takes is waving the controller past, and the charge is made. It’s a lot different than having to take the card out and type in the numbers.

No? It’s no different.

My point is, it’s hard to read the credit card numbers when they’re not visible inside a wallet or pocket. It’s the difference between having to ask to use the credit card and just using it without the parent noticing (until it shows up on the bill). Point-of-sale equipment to charge credit cards by tap aren’t exactly something people leave their kids unattended with.

Ah, that does make sense.

Counterpoint: children have a lot of time to scheme and prepare for the right time.

This would be kinda crazy to happen by accident. The person would have to be in the cart and have the card accidentally register. You can also set a PIN or require password entry before purchases are made as an already existing security measure. Those things would protect this as well. Idk if theyre automatically set up on a child account but I hope so

I wonder if someone could trigger it by sitting on the controller or tapping it against someone’s wallet pocket. Doesn’t matter, because I’m done with PlayStation and Sony, despite having never owned one myself.

I did wonder about that. I’d assume no for sitting as my card doesn’t work until it’s like half an inch from the scanner. For the wallet tap there’s also simple software solutions like needing to opt IN to the controller pay and needing to confirm paying via controller on the console with a couple second timer before dismissing to avoid someone also confirming by accident. I think it’s a fairly useless feature but it’s neat in concept

I would say it’s the same as just leaving your billing details in, but I wouldn’t trust Sony not to leak that info even if I owned a PlayStation.

My concern is buying a used controller with this. How would I be assured my credit card details arent being stolen bc the guy on facebook marketplace “made some adjustments”

If the controller is storing the details then yes that’s a big problem. I would hope it would just put the details in RAM long enough to send them and either the memory gets overwritten or all the memory is erased when the controller is off.

Yes, yes it is. Way lower hurdle and effort.