The PlayStation Access controller, previously often known as “Project Leonardo,” is Sony’s first-ever adaptive controller. Revealed earlier this yr at CES, the Access controller was designed with the aim of mitigating obstacles to entry in video video games for players with disabilities. Today, the PS5 producer revealed a brand new publish on the PlayStation weblog detailing the controller’s design course of over the past 5 years.
The publish encompasses a nine-and-half-minute-long video that provides a historical past behind the controller and its growth. It’s a powerful deep dive into the collaborative course of between Sony Interactive Entertainment’s inside groups and companions and the accessibility teams and consultants that helped to deliver this controller to fruition.
The video itself takes up a bulk of the weblog publish, and options a number of completely different prototypes and early variations of the Access controller because it developed from idea to {hardware}. It highlights simply how customizable the gadget is and reveals a few of the attainable configurations gamers would possibly use it in, together with as an AMPS Mount for a wheelchair.
Brief segments additionally tease how the controller will work together with the PlayStation 5’s consumer interface and present brief clips of re-mapping buttons on the controller. The weblog publish itself and the mini-documentary even spotlight how Sony’s pushing for accessible packaging, with particular locations for gamers to drag to unbox the controller with ease.
The publish goes on additional to announce the Logitech G Adaptive Gaming Kit for Access Controller, which (as its title suggests) is a package with extra plugins and attachments for gamers so as to add on to the Access controller if wanted. Notably, this supplemental package is a licensed product, although not made in-house by Sony just like the Access Controller. Based on the packaging and retailer particulars, it looks like this package will function very related set of extra buttons and triggers to Logitech’s providing for Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller.
The Access Controller comes out in just below two months from now. For extra on the PlayStation Access Controller, take a look at our hands-on preview by accessibility knowledgeable and disabled gamer, Dynamic Reactions. Or, for different Play Station 5 {hardware} information, we additionally in contrast the newly revealed PS5 Slim with the unique PS5 mannequin.
