Jranation said:
I dont know how to describe it. Like compare the PS5 controller to the PS5. Then look at the Xbox Controller. Besides the analogstick positions it resembles the Xbox Controller more. |
I wont deny that the PS5 controller has some similarities as the Xbox controller. When I first saw the PS5 controller, I personally thought the design was like a hybrid of the Xbox and the Switch Pro controller, like how the PS5 controller has like slimmer wings/handles or however you call it, and looks a bit more flat.
Also, I highly doubt the PS5 controller was designed right after the Xbox's design was released. It's possible the console and controller designs for both systems were completed or in its final phase earlier than that. It just so happens that this gen Xbox and Playstation's controller designs turned out more similar then expected. And these days all controllers will look relatively the same since they're all going for the same/similar button configuration so maybe it was just a matter of time when both of these controllers would be more identical.
And maybe when Sony saw the new Xbox controller they realized how similar it looked to theirs and they could've changed it but decided to just stick with the design or was already too late to change it?
I dont know, I never thought the design of a controller is much to go off of as to who's copied who as I've mentioned how they all look relatively the same. But moreso a feature of a controller of who copied would be more like ie. thumbsticks where the N64 had it then Sony changed their PS1 controllers to have dual thumbsticks, or Xbox taking the same button letters as Nintendo, etc..
Last edited by V-r0cK - on 12 June 2020
