Sony patents PlayStation controller buttons that get harder, softer, and grab your fingers as you play
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Forward-looking: Sony has patented a new PlayStation controller that, if nothing else, is ripe for innuendo: the buttons get harder, or softer, when you play with them. It actually sounds quite similar to the adaptive triggers on the PS5 DualSense controller, which use built-in motors to change physical resistance dynamically.
The patent, spotted by Cheat Happens, is titled Operation device, information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program.
The device alters the stiffness of the buttons while a user is playing a game. That means, like the adaptive triggers, the resistance felt when pressing a button could alter based on what's happening on a screen.
There's also a sectionthat mentions a "finger grab" effect, in which a button softens when a finger presses it down then hardens so the player...
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