Sony is bringing the ability to join Discord voice chat directly from the PS5 console. The PlayStation parent had rolled out Discord integration with PS5 in an update last year, but PS5 players had to use the messaging app on PC or mobile to initiate the connection. Now, players can jump into a Discord voice chat natively on their PS5. Sony had first revealed plans to integrate Discord in PlayStation consoles in 2021.
To build a PS5 controller for anyone, Sony had to reinvent the wheel
05.06.2024 - 19:03 / digitaltrends.com / Giovanni Colantonio / Sony
When Sony took the stage at CES 2023, PlayStation fans didn’t know what to expect. The company had a history of using the tech expo to showcase new gaming hardware, like the PlayStation VR2, but its plans for the show aren’t ones that tend to leak beforehand. Left in the dark, eager PlayStation fans tuned in to the CES live broadcast to see what the future of PlayStation might hold.
But nobody expected a UFO to touch down on stage.
Rather than rolling a new console, Sony used its platform to put a spotlight on accessibility with an unusual controller. It showed off a round disc covered in panels that almost made it look like a white steel drum. It was dubbed Project Leonardo at the time, and it would give players with specific needs a new and highly customizable tool that could make playing on PS5 more possible. The project would officially launch a year later as the PlayStation Access Controller, allowing more players than ever to enjoy games like God of War Ragnarok and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
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That was no easy task. The road to the Access Controller’s launch in December 2023 was filled with research and iteration as Sony worked to solve a difficult challenge: How do you create a device that suits several different accessibility needs at once? That would require throwing the idea of traditional controller design out the window and truly thinking about how to reshape the future.
No one-size-fits-all solution
PlayStation’s commitment to accessibility goes back a long time, but it hit a key moment in 2016. That’s when the publisher released Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End complete with a revolutionary suite of accessibility options. According to a tweet from developer Naughty Dog in 2021 celebrating the game’s fifth anniversary, those options had been used by 9.5 million players at the time. That stat makes it clear there was a hunger for accessible games on PlayStation — and Sony’s own market research agreed. In September 2018, Sony would set out to design a controller that could benefit players with a broad range of disabilities.
Actually pulling that off would be a challenge. The needs of players with disabilities can vary wildly, making the idea of a one-device solution next to impossible. For John Zarganis, director of product operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment, the first step was figuring out some core roadblocks that a piece of assistive tech could help remove.
“We understood that the range of accessibility needs is broad and there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution,” Zarganis
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