New-Old DualShock 4; Sony Patents New Version of PlayStation Pad
DualShock with two additional buttons. Sony has just patented a new version of its gamepad and it is probably not designed for PlayStation 5.
Sony recently patented a new version of the DualShock 4 controller. At first glance it's the old and well known pad from PS4, but it has two additional buttons on the bottom. It resembles the solution already known from the overlay designed by Sony, which will officially appear next year. Similarly, the buttons are to be freely programmable. According to Polygon, which discovered this patent entry, dated December 26, in the database of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the buttons could be placed in different positions on the bottom to make their use comfortable for individual preferences.
Another important change is the lack of a central PS Button between the knobs. Interestingly, the new patented version of DualShock still has an outdated microUSB port, and this enables us to believe that the improved pad is not designed for the upcoming PlayStation 5, where the latest solution, the USB-C port, is to be found. So far it is not known whether the new DualShock with the lower buttons is being developed for some special version of PS4 to end current-gen. We don't even know if it's ever going to come into mass production at all.
