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The PlayStation controller is the first gamepad released by Sony Interactive Entertainment for its PlayStation home video game console. The original version (model SCPH-1010) was released alongside the PlayStation on 3 December 1994.
Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation" [1] having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released.
On September 7, 2016, Sony announced a hardware revision of the PlayStation 4, model number CUH-2000, known colloquially as the PlayStation 4 Slim, which phased out the original model. [221] It is a revision of the original PS4 hardware with a smaller form factor; it has a rounded body with a matte finish on the top of the console rather than a ...
PlayStation controller: PlayStation: Connectivity: PlayStation controller port Input: 10 digital buttons, D-pad: December 3, 1994 [16] Virtual Boy controller: Virtual Boy: Connectivity: Virtual Boy controller port Input: 2 D-pads, 6 digital buttons, power switch July 21, 1995 [17] [18] Apple Pippin controller: Apple Pippin: Connectivity: P-ADB
The DualShock 4 (CUH-ZCT1 or CUH-ZCT2) is the PlayStation 4's controller. It has several new features from DualShock 3 . One new feature is a built-in two-point capacitive touch pad on the front of the controller, which can be clicked. [ 28 ]
Mark Cerny grew up in San Francisco, and was a fan of computer programming and arcade games as a youth. [6] He had attended University of California, Berkeley, but when he was 17 in 1982, he was invited to join Atari, and dropped out of school for the opportunity. [7]
Microsoft and Sony consoles saw mid-generation refreshes, with high-end revisions PlayStation 4 Pro and the Xbox One X, and lower-cost PlayStation 4 Slim and Xbox One S models that lacked some features. As of September 2023, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One families had sold an estimated 117 and 58 million units, respectively.
A few months later, the first DualShock controller was released in Japan on 20 November 1997. Namco had already released an analog controller for PlayStation called NeGcon. Sony's Dual Analog Controller's analog mode was not compatible with the NeGcon-compatible games like Wipeout and Ridge Racer.