PlayStation Adds Accessibility Tags To PS5 Game Store
The tags will roll out globally this week.
By George Yang on
PlayStation revealed that accessibility tags will be added to PS5 consoles around the world this week.
Over at the PlayStation Blog, senior VP of Platform Experience gave more details about the feature will work. Accessibility Tags allow developers to give details about various accessibility features that their games support. By pressing the triangle button at a game's hub a list on the PlayStation Store, a list of supported accessibility features will be shown.
There are more than 50 tags spread across six categories, including:
If a game on the PlayStation Store has both PS5 and PS4 versions, then users can compare the tags for both of them. First-party PlayStation games will receive tags first, including titles such as Ghost of Tsushima, God of War Ragnarok, and Returnal. The tags will roll out over the coming weeks and months.
Sony has been an advocate for accessibility, pushing initiatives to add accessibility options to games like The Last of Us Part 1 and creating a customizable accessibility controller called Project Leonardo.
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