By: Paul Tassi
Sony has finally filed its patents for the new PS5 DualShock Controller with the Japanese patent office, 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.
Read more >> https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/11/18/sonys-ps5-dualshock-controller-revealed-in-new-patent/#304aeade6fdc
