PairOfFilthySocks
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Seems they're taking notes from the 360 controller. Good to see.
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Destructoid: PS4 controller prototype & devkit photo, [Up: New Photo/Info In OP]
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Looks awesome.
I know lol. The others were blu ray players. I was just using it as a concept idea.
Your concept looks very sexy. Although, I'm kinda hoping Sony does something more drastic in design. Something in terms of setting it apart from their previous consoles.
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megashock5
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You're missing one of the best things about the GCN button layout.
When on-screen instructions would pop up telling you to "push X button" you instantly knew which direction to move your thumb based on the shape of the button showing on the screen.
Since they weren't all circles, you weren't going, "which one is X, again?"
PetriP-TNT
Member
Does this Boomerang PS4 Controller Concept Look Great?
More at the link.
By: Justin Quinn a freelance 3D artist and designer.
It looks like someone forgot to change to perspective view from orthographic view
I've never done that with the Dualshock/Xbox controllers, but I get your point.
QTEs are horrible though so this doesn't exactly convince me of anything positive in regards to the design of the controller
biggersmaller
Banned
Glowing blue move sensor is ugly and totally unnecessary. Jury is out still on touchpad.
Would love for this to be the design. Such an awesome homage to PS2.
This.I quite like these.
Pagusas
Elden Member
yes please, Keep it simple, stupid! I wish they'd follow that design philosophy. Every game console minus the black wii is terribly ugly. They all look like toys or grills. I just want one that looks like a regular piece of A/V equipment. You can still do a lot of styling inside that design, just look at all the awesome AV receiver designs on the market!
shinobi602
Member
I quite like these.
I'd be perfectly ok with these 2.
Looks too much like an AppleTV/mac mini. Also gives me vibes of an external hard drive. The glass finish looks nice but I don't find it works for that. Also, there will be two front USB 3.0 ports, so those should've been blue.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Yeah, I want something like that. A 21st century piece of technology for an adult rather than some fisher price toy with exaggerated buttons and logos and other stupid shit.
Let's try this again, Concept I cooked up earlier (originally a personal project to rebrand Sony but then I started thinking about PS4 and switched focus). Got inspired by Sony's BR players from CES 2012 but wanted to pay homage to the PS2. Thought about the layout logically(I'm not a thermal dynamics expert but I did draw a product sketch of how the air flow MIGHT work. I wanted to use triangles and play up Sony's flagship BR player. I went with PS2-esque design because while PSX redefined gaming I think the PS2 was the more iconic of the two consoles in several ways. Anyways yeah, made out of boredom in Photoshop.
I hope it's OK to quote the pictures, since they're not on this page yet and more people need to see them.
Anyway, this is beautiful, dude! Great work!
I find that most fan-made console mock-ups look incredibly tacky and gaudy, revealing a complete ignorance of basic product design by the artists behind them. Not this one, though!
Acheteedo
Member
Damn, that is sexy.
I guess I don't see how "looking like a blu ray player" is sexy.
I'm ok with my consoles standing out a bit.
Its not, i have seen this in real life and it looks and feels very cheap, in fact it is a low budget BR-Player.
those look fantastic, I'd buy the hell out of a blue version of that
Acheteedo
Member
Most consoles look flat out stupid. The design should be simple and elegant.
MikeE21286
Member
I definitely could work with that as the console.
I REALLY like the packaging.
My only recommendation is a monochrome "PS" symbol
Gorgeous.
But I do not care for those Vita START and SELECT buttons. Too small, too much clicking.
Goldrusher
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ibun
Member
its nice to see them together but, the blue-red PS symbol is a signature symbol so its should stay colored. ths PS4 writing is a bit too much, since its a pretty light design.
Goldrusher
Member
Sony ditched that logo in 2009, didn't they?
SlowRevolution
Member
This would be awesome.
snowdog1971
Banned
Hmmm...very odd decision from Sony. If they're going to 'borrow' the idea of having some sort of touch input on their controller, surely it would make more sense to have the PS4 controller resemble the Vita, but with decent analog sticks, than stick a tiny touchpad on the thing. Just replace the LED capacitive screen with an LCD resistive touchscreen and the cost of manufacturing and the resulting retail price of the controllers sold separately should be reasonable.
A touchscreen would make more sense than a small touchpad, surely..?
A touchscreen would make more sense than a small touchpad, surely..?
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This is fucking slick.
Any design element which gets wholesale adopted by consoles will become goofy and stupid by virtue of being on little Timmy's Halo box. Chasing style too hard for a mass-market toy is a waste of time.
Doesn't mean it can't look good, but you're never, ever, ever gonna satisfy the market of 20somethings afraid it'll keep them from getting laid when they bring their date back to their apartment.
It would still mean an order of magnitude increase in the price of the controller and a huge hit for the battery life, not to mention the negative public image that they're copying the GamePad. I do not see it happening.
Graphics Horse
Member
It's certainly a bit on the small side but I'm banking on it having a feature that makes it more than just a touchpad, either displaying something or tracking 3D space above it.
I think Mista Koo's mockup was closest in terms of touchpad size.
New one for the new page:
phosphor112
Banned
The "analog" buttons for DS2 and DS3 are digital. Technically so are the sticks on them, just like 360.
Digital potentiometers.
Jill Sandwich
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Facism
Member
i would slap my dick around it's face, it's that sexy.
Graphics Horse
Member
Remind me not to buy a used PS4.
Yes but it's unhelpful terminology to class everything as digital or say it doesn't have analog sticks, I don't know how the triggers are measured but the signal they'll send to the PS4 will be an integer regardless. At some stage it's measuring an physically variable input and reporting it as a number, like how driving wheels just report a 16 bit value. Without resorting to analog wireless signals, there's no other way.
Yes but it's unhelpful terminology to class everything as digital or say it doesn't have analog sticks, I don't know how the triggers are measured but the signal they'll send to the PS4 will be an integer regardless. At some stage it's measuring an physically variable input and reporting it as a number, like how driving wheels just report a 16 bit value. Without resorting to analog wireless signals, there's no other way.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Vargavinter
Member
I hope that they will swap the placing of cross with the left stick, current dualshock put alot of strain on the hand.
Insane Metal
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Haunted
Member
Nope. They stuck with the wrong stick placement for three generations, I don't see them fixing it now.
If the prototype pictures are any indication, at least they've improved on the form factor. Longer handles, bigger and bulkier rump should make it more comfortable to hold.
Liamario
Banned
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
You realise that's not actual size....
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Fried Food
Banned
I'm so glad the screen has capacitive multi touch *phew*
weekend_warrior
Banned
Made a few changes:
Sorry, still looks like a Wii to me. Small and boring.
This is nice. Add that brushed look to the top and I'd buy 3.
phosphor112
Banned
Yeah, I mean we've been getting terrible terminology for every single leak, so I wouldn't be surprised it this is just another terrible way of wording things.
Tarin02543
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With built in Alex The Kidd in Miracle World.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Looks like a dashboard. Or a doorstop.