Sony’s PS5 DualShock Controller Revealed In New Patent Ps5 Patent
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Sony has finally filed its patents for the new PS5 DualShock Controller with the , giving us our first look at the next generation of hardware.
It looks….pretty much the same.
The new PS5 DualShock does feature a few changes, a USB port, larger triggers and smaller sticks, but at first glance in these outline images, you’d be hard pressed to really see a difference between the two.
Most of the biggest changes to the DualShock are not external, as the overall layout is nearly identical, but rather internal, where Sony is using a new range of haptics that are meant to give more responsive, detailed feedback than ever, from slogging through mud to pulling a bow string. That’s something that isn’t going to be conveyed visually, but overall the design here seems to be “don’t mess with what works,” as has usually been the case with the DualShock over the years.
One aspect of this caught me off guard however. While the lightbar of the controller appears to be gone, the large, central touchpad appears to have been left in place. Once upon a time, Sony had a dream of making that touchpad a new form of input for games, but over the years, barely any ever ended up actually using it as anything other than a stupidly large button. Yet despite the fact that barely any titles use it for what it’s intended to be, here it stays, and I guess bringing up my Ghost and Sparrow in Destiny on PS5 will still require me to press this ridiculously huge button for another entire console generation. Fantastic.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - 2018/05/24: A Sony PlayStation 4 video game console with a black wireless ... [+] controller next to it. The PlayStation 4 or PS4 is knows as the eighth generation of home video game console developed by the Japanese company Sony Interactive Entertainment. The console sold for about 74 million units since it was released in November 2013. (Photo by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
I guess in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter all that much. We’ve survived a generation ignoring the touchpad and I guess we’ll do it again. Though I have to believe there is a better use for that space. I’d love to know if Sony has improved that function in any way, but in early previews of the controller, we haven’t heard a word about it, only the haptics, which seem to be the new main draw.
As we head into 2020, Sony will no doubt be unveiling the PS5 soon, probably either in their own event in the spring, or they could wait to return to E3 to show it off in the summer, which is what happened with the PS4.
It stands to reason that the Xbox Scarlett controller will probably not change all that much from the current Xbox One design either, as both companies seem pretty set with these designs at this point with only very minor tweaks moving forward. Stay tuned, maybe we’ll see a patent for the box next.
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