did they use the controller speaker in ghost of tsushima because that's about the only time I can think of that it might have been used intuitively and not immediately taken me out of the moment.
The PS5 DualSense has a mic with the speaker, and I can see its functional use for a lot of folks as a just. Simple communication replacement if they don't wanna use a headset.
But, I have headsets and discord, I just leave it muted all the time.
WarioWare Smooth Moves does it decently for similar reasons as NMH: There's no immersion to pull you out of, you're already IMITATING picking up a phone, so your controller is now imitating making phone sounds in your ear
I DO hate every time I plug the DualSense into my PC and it takes me a full five minutes to figure out why the game's audio is coming out of the controller speaker though
the windows audio device manager should have a "wait is this an AUDIO device or just a device that technically can do audio? am I an asshole?" function
ugh yeah I was setting up my DS4 to work with my PC and I had to go into the control panel and specifically tell Windows that I did not actually want the controller to function as an audio device
But, I have headsets and discord, I just leave it muted all the time.