Accessibility is an important taxable to america astatine PlayStation, and we privation to proceed raising the barroom to alteration each gamer to acquisition the joyousness of play. Whether it’s the robust accessibility options successful PlayStation Studios games similar Sony Santa Monica’s God of War Ragnarok oregon Naughty Dog‘s The Last of Us Part I, oregon the wide array of features successful our PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 console UI, we’re passionate astir reducing barriers to play for each gamer.

Today astatine CES, we announced the adjacent measurement successful our travel to marque gaming much accessible: Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5. Developed with cardinal contributions from accessibility experts, assemblage members, and crippled developers, Project Leonardo is our codename for a caller highly customizable controller kit that works “out of the box” to assistance galore players with disabilities play games much easily, much comfortably, and for longer periods.

Through conversations with accessibility experts and unthinkable organizations similar AbleGamers, SpecialEffect and Stack Up, we’ve designed a highly configurable controller that works successful tandem with galore third-party accessibility accessories and integrates with the PlayStation 5 console to unfastened up caller ways of gaming. It is built to code communal challenges faced by galore players with constricted centrifugal control, including trouble holding a controller for agelong periods, accurately pressing tiny clusters of buttons oregon triggers, oregon positioning thumbs and fingers optimally connected a modular controller.

Here are immoderate of the cardinal features:

Highly Customizable Play Experience

Hardware customizations. Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5 is simply a canvas for gamers to trade their ain play experience. It includes a robust kit of swappable components, including a assortment of analog instrumentality caps and buttons successful antithetic shapes and sizes.

Players tin usage these components to trade a wide array of power layouts. And the region of the analog instrumentality from the crippled pad tin beryllium adjusted to suit the player’s preference. These components let players to find a configuration that works for their strength, scope of motion, and peculiar carnal needs.

Software customizations. On the PlayStation 5 console players person an array of options to tailor their Project Leonardo play experience:

• Button Mapping
  • The controller’s buttons tin beryllium programmed to immoderate supported relation and aggregate buttons tin beryllium mapped to the aforesaid function. Conversely, players tin representation 2 functions (like “R2” + “L2”) onto the aforesaid button.
• Control Profiles
  • Players tin store their programmed fastener settings arsenic power profiles and easy power betwixt them by pressing the illustration button.
  • Up to 3 power profiles tin beryllium stored and accessed by the subordinate from their PlayStation 5 console astatine immoderate time.

Works Collaboratively with Other Devices and Accessibility Accessories

Project Leonardo tin beryllium utilized arsenic a standalone controller oregon paired with further Project Leonardo oregon DualSense wireless controllers. Up to 2 Project Leonardo controllers and 1 DualSense wireless controller tin beryllium utilized unneurotic arsenic a azygous virtual controller, allowing players to premix and lucifer devices to acceptable their peculiar gameplay needs, oregon to play collaboratively with others.

For example, players tin augment their DualSense controller with a Project Leonardo controller oregon usage 2 Project Leonardo controllers connected their own. A person oregon household subordinate tin besides assistance by helping to power the player’s crippled quality with a DualSense controller oregon a 2nd Project Leonardo controller. The controllers tin beryllium dynamically turned connected oregon disconnected and utilized successful immoderate combination.

Project Leonardo is expandable done 4 3.5mm AUX ports to enactment a assortment of outer switches and third-party accessibility accessories. This enables users to integrate specialty switches, buttons oregon analog sticks with the Project Leonardo controller. The outer accessories tin beryllium dynamically connected oregon disconnected, and each tin beryllium configured to enactment similar immoderate different button.

Flexible, Adaptable Design

Project Leonardo’s split, symmetric plan allows players to reposition the analog sticks arsenic adjacent unneurotic oregon arsenic acold isolated arsenic they like. The controller lies level and does not request to beryllium held, truthful players tin laic it connected a tabletop oregon a wheelchair tray. It tin beryllium easy secured to AMPS mounts* oregon tripods, and tin beryllium oriented 360 degrees for the astir comfy use. Players tin besides programme the “north” predisposition connected the analog sticks to lucifer their preferred controller orientation.

Sony Interactive Entertainment decorator So Morimoto shares immoderate insights connected however his squad approached the concern plan of Project Leonardo:

“Project Leonardo is portion of the PlayStation 5 merchandise household and is based connected the aforesaid plan concept. We were inspired by the thought of each players enjoying the satellite of PlayStation together. Our squad tested implicit a twelve designs with accessibility experts, looking for approaches that would assistance code cardinal challenges to effectual controller use. We yet settled connected a ‘split controller’ plan that allows adjacent free-form left/right thumbstick repositionability, tin beryllium utilized without needing to beryllium held, and features precise flexible fastener and instrumentality headdress swapping.

“Because players tin customize Project Leonardo according to their needs, determination is nary 1 ‘right’ signifier factor. We privation to empower them to make their ain configurations. The controller tin besides flexibly judge combinations of accessibility accessories to make a unsocial aesthetic. I americium excited that the plan volition beryllium completed done collaboration with players alternatively than presenting them with a azygous signifier factor.”

—So Morimoto, Designer, Sony Interactive Entertainment

Looking Ahead

Project Leonardo is presently successful improvement and we proceed to stitchery invaluable feedback from the community. We’d similar to convey each the fantastic organizations and accessibility experts who are supporting america successful this effort.

We are besides grateful to everyone successful the assemblage who has advocated for greater gaming accessibility. You are the crushed we bash our enactment and your passionateness inspires america each day. It’s genuinely a privilege for america to make products that amended service your needs. We look guardant to sharing much successful the future, including further merchandise features and motorboat timing.