Sony’s Idea For A Future PlayStation Controller Looks Like It Came Straight Out Of Minority Report
As part of its long-term strategy, Sony briefly showed a concept for a high-tech PlayStation controller in a new promotional video. To detail its Creative Entertainment Vision strategy designed to show what its products could look like a decade from now, the video showed off a controller with a radical redesign compared to the current DualSense model.
“Ten years from now, we will be living in a more multi-layered world where physical and virtual realities overlap without boundaries,” Sony said in the video synopsis. “If Sony, as a creative entertainment company, would be filling the world with new Kando–a Japanese word meaning ‘emotional involvement’ or ‘deep impression’– in that future, what kind of experiential value would we be offering to make that happen? To explore this question, we conducted a prototyping exercise under the concept of Creative Entertainment Vision.”
This controller still has analog sticks and a familiar shape, but regular face buttons and the D-pad have been replaced entirely by new inputs. There’s also a floating screen above the controller–accessed via a fancy virtual- and mixed-reality headset in the video–and gameplay of a character exploring space. Someone at Sony is clearly a big fan of Minority Report.