Back in January we got our first look at a new accessible controller design from Sony called Project Leonardo. The turtle shaped creation looked like a great modular controller for gamers who need a few more options for their inputs. Xbox has received high praise for its excellent accessibility controller and it looked as though Sony had learned plenty from its competitors' success from that first look in January. With May 18th playing host to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Sony dropped a bit more information about its upcoming controller.
While I quite liked the turtle inspired Project Leonardo moniker, it's been given a new name as the Access controller for PS5. This seems to confirm our original suspicions that the controller isn't going to be backwards compatible and is instead designed for Sony's current flagship console.
That being said, we've managed to get those DualSense controllers working on PC so we're still hopeful for the new Access controller. Especially given one of the new videos showing off the product talks about connecting at least two Access controllers for PS5 via the DualSense.
Thanks to being a hot swappable controller, Sony's been showing off a heap of buttons but we've finally been given a solid look at what will come in the box. The turtle shaped button wheel featuring your usual PlayStation markers and single analogue stick controller appear to be the standard configuration.
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It's likely Sony will offer extra pieces on the official access controller website, but for now each controller should come with a fair few options including standard, dome, and
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