Sony details in depth the news of the new controller and expands the information after showing its first official images.
Sony has released the first official images of the next new PS5 controller, the DualSense. After four generations under the DualShock nomenclature, which has been polished to the design of the already veteran PlayStation 4, the Japanese company has wanted to start from scratch with what they consider "will transform the world of video games". Hideaki Nishino, senior VP in product planning and management, explained that they have replaced the Share button with Create to offer even more possibilities.
The 'Share' button has not disappeared, it has been transformed
The absence of the Share button is the next step in Sony to improve the functions of the traditional START and SELECT, which since the nineties served as a complement to the action commands for menus, pause, interface and other secondary aspects. Share was the next step, with which you could take screenshots by pressing a couple of seconds or a screenshot of 15 the last fifteen minutes of the game by just pressing that same button for an instant.
Now that changes. "As for the buttons, the first thing that catches the eye is the absence of the famous 'Share' button on the DualShock 4. But that doesn't mean it has disappeared," Nishino begins. "Following the success of the pioneering Share button, we have gone a step further by adding a new 'Create' button. With it, we once again offer players never-before-seen ways to create epic game content to share with the world or personally enjoy, ”he continues.
However, news is expected that Share did not incorporate in DualShock 4, but the possibility of sharing captures or gameplays with the push of a button is not eliminated. He highlights that they acknowledge having had "hundreds of drafts" before deciding on this latest design for the DualSense. Ergonomics, they assume, was a priority element: “In total, we have created and discarded hundreds of erasers over the past few years until we find what is now the definitive design. We have put the DualSense in the hands of (literally) all kinds of gamers to find the level of comfort and ergonomics we were looking for. ”
PlayStation 5 will go on sale at Christmas 2020 with an undecided catalog of games and a price yet to be detailed. You can learn everything we know about the console in this report.
