ps3 making your secondary controller your primary?

Se7ven · 11 Jan 2011 at 13:50

hey guys i got a new DS3 through the mail today - which is my first second controller, but its an upgrade from my original, how do I go about making it my primary (1) and my original the secondary (2)?

never done it before

cheers

uv · 11 Jan 2011 at 13:55

Hold down the old pad's button, switch the pad off, turn the new one on and it'll connect as player one. Then turn on the old pad.

Edz · 11 Jan 2011 at 13:59

or hold down the PS button and select controller setting then change the number

andshrew · 11 Jan 2011 at 14:00

The controller number isn't fixed - they get assigned based on the order you turn the controllers on each time you use the console.

iv-tecman · 11 Jan 2011 at 14:09

I thought if you turned the console on with the controller that would be the first assigned controller, simple.

I have a number of DS3 controllers, and the one I pick up first, is the one that is assigned as the first primary controller once I press the PS button to turn the console on.

Easy....

Dutch Guy · 11 Jan 2011 at 14:29

As said the controllers aren't numbered, the first you turn on is 1, the 2nd is 2 etc.

demonix · 11 Jan 2011 at 18:11

andshrew said:
The controller number isn't fixed - they get assigned based on the order you turn the controllers on each time you use the console.

Dutch Guy said:
As said the controllers aren't numbered, the first you turn on is 1, the 2nd is 2 etc.

True on both counts as I just had a new DS3 through and all I did was plugged it into the console (you have to sync it first anyway), turned on the console and when it had booted up I just pressed the PS button on the controller and presto the controller 1 light on the controller lit up.

Twentyone · 11 Jan 2011 at 18:49

Like said, either just turn it on first or if you got both controllers on you can hold the PS button and change the numbers of the controller there