PS5’s new DualSense controller introduces Haptic Touch and Adaptive Triggers

The PS5’s new controller could give it the edge over Xbox, and Sony has included a tiny detail for eagle-eyed console fans.

With all the hype around next generation gaming consoles going on sale in November, it’s easy to forget one of the most important parts of the gaming experience is the newly designed controllers you’ll actually use to play games on the new hardware.

The designers of these controllers clearly put a lot of thought into them and it shows.

In addition to all the technological advances in the new PS5 controller Sony has also included some hidden Easter eggs for fans, if your eyesight is good enough to spot them.

The textured surface of the bigger and heftier new DualSense controller, designed to help you keep your grip, is actually made up of thousands of tiny symbols that represent the PlayStation’s X, Circle, Square and Triangle controls.

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The controller of the PS5 features tiny little symbols of the controller's buttons.

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Under the surface there’s also brand new features designed to make gaming more immersive.

Sony has given some detail on these advancements, but it takes actually getting the thing in your hand to understand what the company means by branding definitions like “Haptic Touch” and “Adaptive Triggers”.

The new PS5 DualSense controller is a massive improvement over the PS4 DualShock controller.

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Haptic touch is essentially the new rumble vibration, but it’s nothing like the kind we’ve become accustomed to over the years, in fact to put it plainly it makes current controller vibrations feel like garbage.

Haptic touch is more subtle and more detailed, and let’s you feel parts of the game you couldn’t before.

You can feel when the surface changes under your feet, you can feel when you make contact with objects in the game and even detect things as nuanced as what foot you’re standing on.

Rather than vibrate the whole controller it sends small vibrational feedback to different parts of it, which combined with the directional audio capabilities of the new console, promises some previously unparalleled immersion in the world of your chosen game.

New features promise greater immersion in your favourite games.

The new adaptive triggers function as a sort of second button at the end of the trigger’s travel distance.

You can squeeze them as usual to apply various levels of force for better control over in-game things like a car accelerating, but if you squeeze again there’s even further for the triggers to go.

The towering new PlayStation 5 console with its new DualSense controller

It’s a bit of a case of wait and see before we know how developers will actually use these new features, but the possibilities are pretty much only limited by the imagination.

Other changes to the controller include a bigger and smoother trackpad that you might actually want to use now.

The new, bigger trackpad is smoother and better.

Like most new devices, the updated PS5 controller now also includes a microphone for communicating with friends and other gamers and issuing voice commands.

You get one included with the new PS5 console but any extra controllers you might want will set you back $109.95.

The PlayStation 5 console launches on November 12, but if you haven’t secured a pre-order yet good luck getting your hands on one.