The PS5 Controller May Be The Best “In History”
Game developers are already raving about Sony’s new controller, the DualSense.
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Game developers are already raving about Sony’s new controller, “I absolutely love it. It’s an amazing design, I think it has a chance to be one of the best in history.” Dying Light 2 lead game designer Tymon Smektala told Push Square on his thoughts about the PS5 DualSense controller.
The PS5 DualSense controller at first glance is a device with a sleek and modern design taken from the aesthetics of sci-fi and futuristic innovation. The biggest feature on the controller, however, is not the heightened design, but the integration of haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Sony’s Senior Vice President Hideaki Nishino described haptic feedback as the controller’s simulation of a “variety of powerful sensations you’ll feel when you play, such as the slow grittiness of driving a car through mud.” and perhaps even getting shot by suppressing fire at the trenches of WW1. Adaptive triggers, on the other hand, is the simulated tension added to the L2 and R2 buttons that allow you to feel the on-screen character’s force and effort in an activity like pushing a barricade, lifting a beam, punching enemies, reloading a gun, and so on. As for the Share button, the PS5 controller has replaced it with a “Create” function which allows users to create “epic gameplay content” according to vice president Nishino. The details on the create function aren’t too clear yet but Nishino says that they’ll have more details as we get closer to launch.
The senior vice president mentioned the motivation for the implemented features of the PS5 Dualsense controller in a blog. He started with the conclusion that the sense of touch has not been a big focus for many games. From this, he stated that the PS5 Dualsense controller will not just allow players to get the tactile feedback from what happens in-game, but also allow game-developers to create a new layer of touch simulation thanks to the features that the controller provides. The vice president also mentioned the challenges they faced in having such complex features in a small form factor fitting the proper parts in, and still managing to keep it small and light.
These days, a controller isn’t just an input device anymore where you press some buttons and the character on-screen does actions according to those buttons. Having both visual and auditory feedback from TVs, monitors, surround speakers, and home theater systems, the sense of touch hasn’t been capitalized much on with regards to gameplay immersion. A controller nowadays could serve as an output device as well bringing the sense of touch to your hands much like a monitor does to your eyes, and your headset does to your ears. Catering to the sense of touch will pioneer gameplay immersion further, and the only way to comprehend this innovation is to actually FEEL it yourself. The Ps5 Dualsense controller may actually be the best “in history.”
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