Last night at CES in Las Vegas, Sony presented some new products. That also counted Project Leonardo – a brand new one Controller kit for the PS5, which aims to enable gaming for all players. games like God of War Ragnarok or The Last of Us Part 1 have with extensive Accessibility Options recently shown how important this topic is for Sony. Project Leonardo’s hardware is the “next step” for the company.
Development with many experts
in the playstation blog there are numerous details controller kit. Among other things, the project was carried out in cooperation with organizations such as AbleGamers, special effect and also stack up developed that have been committed to helping players with disabilities for many years. The kit can not only individually be adapted to the needs, but is at the same time with Accesories other provider compatible. Four take care of that 3.5mm AUX portslocated on the side of the hardware.
That flat design allows placement on a table or other shelves. When a 360 degree orientation is required, this can also be implemented. Project Leonardo can easily AMPS mounts or tripods to be attached. In addition to all the interchangeable elements on the kit, Sony will soon be offering software adjustments as well. In the menu of the PS5, for example, several control profiles be created. A picture of the individual parts of Project Leonardo can be found below.
The PS5 Accessible Controller Kit can be customized.
Source: Sony
A variety of controllers can be combined into a single “virtual controller” unite. The kit can be coupled alone or together with a second Project Leonardo hardware. In addition, the Dualsense controller of the PS5 can also be connected. A total of three devices can thus merge into one barrier-free input device.
There will be more information soon
Sony has not yet revealed when the release of Project Leonardo is planned. Microsoft also started four years ago with the Xbox Adaptive Controllers released a comparable product for gamers. Playstation developers are currently collecting feedback for their project to further optimize the controller kit. There will be more details in the future.
Source: playstation blog
