SIE President and CEO Jim Ryan has talked about the haptic feedback feature of the PlayStation 5 controller a couple times now. While we have heard a lot about how cool it is going to be, one thing we don’t know a lot about is how it will work. But there is some fresh information about that in a patent which talks about the PS5 vibration feature.
Here is How the PS5 Vibration Feature Will Work
SegmentNext posted some excerpts from the patent. Describing the PS5 vibration feature, the patent says, “A method of controlling a vibration device according to the present invention, includes: a step of receiving a vibration instruction; and a vibration control step of vibrating the vibration device in accordance with content obtained by correcting the content of the received vibration instructions, in which the vibration control step, the correction content is determined in accordance with a user using the vibration device.”
Also, it turns out that this feature will be customizable, and will feature different feedback levels based on both the game and player settings. The patent also explains, “The vibration device generates vibration of the strength or frequency appropriate to the content of the vibration instruction by operating the vibration mechanism on the basis of the control command. Thereby, a body of the vibration device can be vibrated in accordance with conditions of a game executed by the application according to the present embodiment and vibration thereof can be presented to the user.”
So, now you should be able to better visualize how the PS5 vibration feature will function. We will continue to keep you posted on updates and rumors on the PlayStation 5 in our PlayStation news section. There should be plenty more news in the near future as we get closer to the release date for the next gen console.