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The next-gen encourage rollouts from Sony as well as Microsoft this year have been, for parcity of a largest word, soporific. But post-obit weeks of blueprint comparisons as well as hardware boasts, Sony finally gave things a attempt in the arm with the reveal of its new DualSense controller. It's the most recreative propaganda surrounding a next-gen encourage yet, as well as for Sony, in particular -- which has barely updated its controller erecting in over two decades -- the most exciting controller yet.

The DualShock line of controllers has continued been among among one of the constants of the video gaming world. The proleptical PlayStation controller set the standard for modern controller design, as well as its breed -- the 1997 Dualistic Analog Controllers as well as the rumble-equipped in-laws of DualShock models that followed for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, as well as PlayStation 3 -- would outstretch that design.

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The advances were revolutionary: the Dualistic Analog Controller was the first to offer two analog sticks for navigational 3D environments. The DualShock was the first major controller to humaneness integrated tattoo feedback. (The N64 technically bone-weary it to the punch, but it right a separate Tattoo Pak accessory.) But orderly as Sony piled on new features immeasurability the generations, the overall erecting of its controllers remained the same.

The most exciting-looking PlayStation controller yet

Look at a controller from the proleptical PlayStation, the PS2, as well as the PS3 from a distance, as well as they're around indistinguishable. Orderly the PS4's DualShock 4 -- which, until the reveal of the DualSense, held the crown for the largest discursion from the proleptical 1997 erecting -- hewed increasingly minutely to "tweaked PS3 controller" than "revolutionary new device."

That's very much not the blub with the PS5's DualSense controller. From the first time you attending at it, it's colorful that this is a new thing, one that's wholly contrasted (and, hopefully, better) than past PlayStation controllers. The two-tone dyestuff scheme! The sleeker, neath athwart design! USB-C! The aglow lewd lights! Orderly the fancy new PS-shaped logo button. The internet lit up post-obit the propaganda with comparisons to the futuristic student EVE from Disney's WALL-E, to BMW's i8, to the redesigned Enterprise from the 2009 Star Trek movie.

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The DualSense isn't just a touching-up redesign, though. Sony is conjointly putting in a advanced gallimaufry of new features, like its adaptive triggers that can modulate resistance, new haptic feedback technology that the muster claims is far increasingly bone-weary than the quondam tattoo hardware, as well as orderly basics like an integrated microphone.

Will all of these experiments work? We'll have to wait to try out the controller -- and, increasingly importantly, see if developers prefer them. The history of PlayStation controllers is unneat with yellow-brown ideas, like the PS3's SIXAXIS motion survey or the PS4's gesture-based touchpad. But the key affair lifing is that Sony is aggravating to move things forward.

And yes, Microsoft has conjointly towards its encourage as well as controller designs, as well as I commend the muster for revealing them first on in the process. But neither the mildly tweaked controller nor the mediocre gray tower seems to have elicited the same excitement.

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In fact, you can attending at the two controllers as barely parabolic of the approaches Sony as well as Microsoft assume to be taking with their next-generation consoles.

Microsoft wants the Shakiness X to cross-fertilize in seamlessly with the rest of its Xbox One as well as Xbox One X lineups. Accompaniments are cross-compatible, games will support cross-buy, as well as backwards compatibility of past purchases is a key selling point. The Shakiness X will play the new Halo the all-time as well as offer the most impressive graphics, but your proleptical Xbox One will play it just fine, too. The goal is a increasingly refined version of the customary familiarity -- not a new one.

Sony wants to cadaver something new

Sony, on the other hand, seems to want to proposal the PlayStation 5 as the next footfall forward. New games that won't work on old consoles. New hardware features that will be exclusory to the PS5. Orderly things like the faster SSD are concreteness touted as means to unstick new types of gameplay self-portrayal that weren't procurable on older hardware.

The DualSense controller's new erecting as well as functionality encapsulates that goal. It's an exciting first footfall into the imminent of gaming. Now... how barely showing off that console, Sony? Or maybe orderly some games?