As a part of its long-term technique, Sony briefly confirmed an idea for a high-tech PlayStation controller in a brand new promotional video. To element its Inventive Leisure Imaginative and prescient technique designed to indicate what its merchandise may appear like a decade from now, the video confirmed off a controller with a radical redesign in comparison with the present DualSense mannequin.
“Ten years from now, we shall be dwelling in a extra multi-layered world the place bodily and digital realities overlap with out boundaries,” Sony stated within the video synopsis. “If Sony, as a inventive leisure firm, can be filling the world with new Kando–a Japanese phrase that means ’emotional involvement’ or ‘deep impression’– in that future, what sort of experiential worth would we offer to make that occur? To discover this query, we carried out a prototyping train underneath the idea of Inventive Leisure Imaginative and prescient.”
This controller nonetheless has analog sticks and a well-known form, however common face buttons and the D-pad have been changed solely by new inputs. There’s additionally a floating display above the controller–accessed through a elaborate virtual- and mixed-reality headset within the video–and gameplay of a personality exploring area. Somebody at Sony is clearly an enormous fan of Minority Report.
Of course, that is only a temporary snippet of what Sony needs to purpose for sooner or later, and expertise like this rolling out on a big scale will doubtless be much more than only a decade away.
Wanting towards the extra rapid future, it has been reported that Sony is making ready to launch a mid-gen refresh of the PS5, dubbed the PS5 Professional. Current leaks recommend that it’ll have a extra highly effective GPU and a barely sooner CPU mode, and Sony is reportedly asking recreation builders to create an enhanced- graphics mode of their video games in order that these titles can have a PS5 Professional “Enhanced” label.