Yesterday, Sony revealed the upcoming PlayStation 5's brand new controller, the DualSense. Our chums over at Push Square have details on everything you need to know about if you're thinking of grabbing a PS5 later this year, but we couldn't help but notice one small - and very silly - detail ourselves.
Actually brought to our attention thanks to the tweet below, we've realised that the controller's shiny new 'Create' button looks strangely familiar. We're not sure what the design is really supposed to represent exactly, but it sure does look an awful lot like the honk of everyone's favourite indie goose.
Since launching on Switch last September, Untitled Goose Game has also waddled on over to the PS4. If a sequel should be released later down the line on PS5, wouldn't that just make for the perfect honk button?
Do you like the new PS5 controller design? Think it'll be any nicer than the Switch's Pro Controller? Give us a honk in the comments.
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Honk honk hooooonk!!!
Looks like a Dual shock 4 with a face mask.
But why break whats not broken ?
The DS4 is a fine controller.
Untitled Playstation Controller!
No other explanation.
It's pretty much saying you want to shout about what you have done and show it off.
Oh, is this PlaystationLife?:s
I'm surprised it took NintendoLife this long to work the PS5 controller into an article.
Personally I've never been a fan of Sony's controllers, especially the stick placement. I also think they should probably have stuck to a full black design as it looks kinda hideous but oh well. It's very unlikely that I'll be getting a PS5 regardless of it's controller as being forced to play on my TV feels like too much of a step backwards.
Well shoot, PS5 won the internet! Calling it now, 500 million unit sold.
HONK!
NOTE: Joke
It better make a honking noise when pressed!
I think it looks a lot better than the dual shock 4. But, I also think the ds4 is absolutely hideous, so yeah...
I really like the look of the DualSense controller. A good combination of something old and something new. The new features sound really interesting as well.
Random is a polite way of putting it I guess
Although you could have gone with the equally viable breaking news story “Breath of the Wild also has the colour white in it!”
I don’t like the analogue placement on PS controllers, they picked brand over comfort IMO, and why they have kept them in that location I don’t understand. But saying that, I like the original N64 controller.
It's a strangely playful looking button on a controller that is in all other regards trying desperately to look as futuristic and sleek as it possibly can.
@Gerald Oh I much prefer the symmetrical analogue placement! Though I thought the WiiU pro-controller did it best with the sticks above the face buttons. But I know I'm not in the majority there at all!
DualSense....more like nonsense!
I hope the DualSense has better battery life, than the DS4.
Plot twist: The PS5 IS the goose!
Sticks look like they're in the wrong place.
@Ogbert I much prefer non symmetrical myself for the sticks, Majority of games I play mostly use left Analogue with right buttons, occasionally using right analogue for changing a camera view or something like that
I do like the WiiUPro, but I did not use it that much, mostly used the game pad.
Funny that I never used to mind using the WiiU Game Pad. After a couple of years playing Switch, I now find the WiiU Game Pad awful to use
The best feature of the DuelSense is this new thing Sony came up with called HD Rumble...
Controller only good as how many games it supports and I doubt older PS games support this feature. So there you have it all bluster without hooks to support it. If that all they can do to offer and no better game offer then it's a easy pass.
Everything made in the world, needs a honk button....everything!
@Mountain_Man They are and they not fun to use in that way. If you play some hours your thumb will be hurt by it. Xbox controller is the better one for sure
Too bad the left stick is still in the wrong place. 🤷♂️
@Gerald Yeah of all the people I know it a fairly even split but I think asymmetrical does just about win out as most popular. Of course that's purely anecdotal! I think more of them still would say "the only proper way to play games is a keyboard and mouse" which is a statement I cannot even begin to get on board with!
I love the look of the controller.
how is this nintendo
I hope they bring out a black version. The white will look grubby in no time!
Really like this new controller. I’m excited to see the exclusives get announced
@glorymade Because the Switch's image and its more laid-back audience (arguably) gave Untitled Goose Game a lot of its sales and momentum.
And that's before I even mention HONK
It looks like the commonplace depiction of aural (and, by some metaphorical extension, wireless) messages which is probably as old as cartoons and comic strips themselves. But hush...
Nintendolife get serious! In which way this is related to Nintendo?
@nkarafo Yeah, really. They seem to be covering more and more non-Nintendo stuff lately (like Sonic movies, Castlevania on Netflix, and even reviews of Sega and NEC consoles), and even though I could just skip over the articles, for some reason it really bothers me that they're there in the first place. Maybe it's part of my OCD or something. I'm starting to miss the days of Corbie Dillard and James Newton, and that's really saying something.
Wow, that is worst controller I have ever seen.
@invictus4000 Haptic trigger feedback? I don't think the Switch has that. It doesn't even have analogue triggers AFAIK.
@Octane As much as I love the Pro controller, the lack of analogue triggers is a massive letdown to me.
@ryancraddock The icon on this "create" button looks like a voice command or mute icon. Makes me wonder if they are integrating a voice chat intercom into the controller. Has that been done before? Sounds like a idea cool to me.
@KitsuneNight The DS4 is one of Sony’s worst controllers.
@graysoncharles Ring Fit Adventure uses the sensor. It's the key feature to the game. And Animal Crossing uses the Amiibo cards and Amiibo in a very cool way.
@DrDaisy Castlevania has a huge connection to Nintendo’s consoles through the years, and there’s several Castlevania games on the Switch now. Also, a lot of people who grew up on Nintendo also grew up on Sega (we consider ourselves the lucky ones). So there’s a rightfully expected crossover of these things. It doesn’t bother me; so long as they still focus on Nintendo primarily.
I love the coloring of the controller ....looks futuristic.
But I really like Xbox and Pro controllers. My hands are way more comfortable in those.
White is a bold choice for a controller. #wipedownafteruse
Controller looks like a cross between a Storm Trooper and something out of Portal. Either way, it's pretty cool tech. Haptic feedback triggers, built-in mic, and a honk button. Sounds expensive, but cool.
@mesome713
But Ring Fit Adventure seemingly "only" uses it as a heartrate sensor (which, in itself is pretty cool).
Its called the create button. Im pretty sure its just supposed to represent a light turning on... like when you have a good idea and “the light goes on in your head”
@MrBlacky Which is a key feature. Only recent game I know of. 1-2 Switch uses it also which is cool. And Nintendo Lab. It also works in Resident Evil to reload your gun. Same with LA Niore
@Gerald I too like the N64 controller. Since getting a PS4 I now prefer that stick placement, and asymmetrical feels a bit weird, and if you stop and think about it, asymmetrical makes no sense.
But I can jump between all of them. Even my beloved N64.
Sigh...you'll never stop, will you?
I think this controller looks absolutely beautiful really stunning. However won’t get one until it has a killer game and I don’t know what that would be at the moment. Will probably be delayed anyway. Have a PS4 and use mostly for dvds and the long wait for last of us 2 x x x x
@graysoncharles IR use in Labo is pretty neat. I’ve Been putting together last few VR bits in lock down with my daughter and the making alone is worth the money. But yes in normal games what has the IR sensor brought to gaming? Reloading in Resident Evil Rev2 is the only implementation in a ‘normal’ game I can think. Then there’s Ring Fit heart rate implementation, Rock Paper Scissors in Brain Training and some stuff in 1-2 Switch in addition to Labo. Quirky stuff only possible because of the IR sensor and like it or loathe it, this weird innovation broadens the appeal of gaming as a hobby for all to enjoy. However give me the pro controller, nay the GC controller with its analogue shoulders any day.
There goes 20 seconds of my life that I'll never get back. Click is on the house.
Lol that's BS, those three lines symbolizing speech/animal sounds were not invented by Untitled Goose Game but have been a very common symbol for a long time.
I think it looks as god awful as every other controller design Sony have ever slipped out. And reliably it’s gotten a degree worse with every iteration. PS4 was my last ever Playstation and this just adds rhyme to reason.
I seem to be the only person that prefers the Dualshock's symmetrical placement of the sticks haha
People realize that’s not a unique thing to that game, right? Just google “speaker icons” and you’ll see a bunch of them use that same three-line imagery to indicate the movement of sound.
@shani Exactly.
Wow, a White PS5 controller ! 😀
A throwaway joke is a rather tenuous link to get a PlayStation article onto a Nintendo one haha. Ah well.
@graysoncharles I wear a size L glove, but several fingers will end up breaking out since my hands and fingers are long but thin. The PS4 controller feels bigger to me for some reason though.
I can also comfortably use an original Xbox controller.
Don't similar three lines or a three pronged burst appear over the heads of anime characters when they have a eureka moment? It seems like a stretch to comment it to Untitled Goose Game.
It’s an age old cartooning symbol. What a stretch of a premise
What the controller reminds me of:
What in the... wow that is a horrible looking controller. Welp guess I’m getting the SX first then.
And the award for worst article ever on NintendoLife goes to. . .
@Fearful-Octopus why wouldnt it.
I never like Sony's placements of sticks on the controllers aspect and this is still the worst one yet. I will give them one credit one though, tha d-pad looks much better than the awful one on the PS1, 2, and 3.
I think, that Ryan Craddock played in Untitled Goose Game too much.
About DualSense. It's looks really cool and futuristic, and I already wanna try it. But I am not sure, that it will be so perfect for me as DualShock 4.
Pretty sure three little lines can be used for more than a reference to the goose game. Must be slow news today.
@mesome713 Agreed. No idea what Sony was thinking with this design... Looks like the copied homework of a white Xbox controller with a dual shock shoved in.
@HXLXIII Because this current gen they cheaped out when it comes to the Dualshock 4's battery life. Just hoping to get a controller of the same battery life as the switch pro controller. Hopefully about 40 hours, but I know it probably wouldn't happen.
@mesome713 Heart rate detection in RFA is not a key feature. It's completely optional, gives you a couple hundred experience points whenever you use it, has no function whatsoever in the game itself, and is not even tracked in the game. You could complete RFA, including NG+, without ever checking your heart rate.
@JasmineDragon But then you'd never know your heartrate. You'll never know how close to the limit you truly are. Just go to the doctor and tell him checking your heartrate isn't a key feature to fittness.
And yes, your heart rate is tracked. You can compare it between exercises which is the whole point of checking your heart,
@Rob3008
Yeah, I know right? Especially with the stretch that they're doing here to make a story out of nothing. Also, If I wanted to talk about sony or their controller, I could just go to one of the many sites that specialize in that thing. It's kind of annoying I'll always have to see them shoe horn sony or others onto this site somehow, yet whenever I actually went to their playstation affiliate, I'd hardly (if ever) see the reverse. At least when I've been on there. I hardly even come here anymore due to things like that & some of their more lackluster articles; and yet, on one of the few days I choose to, here we are yet again with something sony in their mouth. lol
@DevinRex
Bruhhh....nailed it!
@WoomyNNYes
That's actually exactly what they are doing.
@GrailUK
That's surely what it seems like. I swear to God that I'm actually starting to believe my buddy that thought that these dudes were undercover getting their palms greased to be playstation shills. That or that some of them are just too ps faithful that they can only go so long without paying worship
& find any way that they can (like this stupid @$$ article) to mention them.
Like I said before, it's crazy that I can be absent from this site for weeks and even months at a time and randomly just check the board and have a 60-40 chance or better it seems to see them weaving something sony in there somehow. So perhaps they were right all along?
@Antraxx777
I cannot agree with you there my friend. I actually believe that the ps4 controller the best & most comfortable one they have made thus far. Sure, that's not saying much as I still think they make some of the most mediocore controllers out there, but at least I could stand holding & playing games on that pad without constantly thinking about how sh**ty it was.
@Bob1234 will ps5 be the first controller to have a voice chat intercom built in that you're aware of?
I just want to have the Xbox one x controller on ps5 that's it. Honestly its only the controller I don't like. Back when I was tiny yes, now not so much anymore.
@mesome713 Have you played the game? It does not record your heart rate anywhere. Unless you are independently recording your heart rate, there is no record of it. The game does not care what your heart rate is. It keeps logs of how long you've been working out, how many reps you've done of everything, how long you work out every day, your rank in the gyms, what place you are in with every skill compared to both your friend list and everyone else in your age group registered online - but it doesn't record your heart rate, ever.
@JasmineDragon Maybe you should Google it then, because it does. How else does it remember each heart rate really or ding from differing exercises throughout the day.
How does my heart rate go from 87, 91, 93 during three different experiences?
@mesome713 I did Google, and asked around online too, but maybe I missed something. Where do you see a record of your heart rate readings? Tell me what screen you're looking at.
@JasmineDragon It's after each heart rate recording. If you record your heart rate after each exercise, it shows first, second, third, etc.
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