Lattepunk 9
Lattepunk
Does Sony make the best gaming controller? I think so…
I recently acquired a PlayStation 5 controller. I actually don’t use controllers when I game, but the few games I play with them, I want something good. To be fair, I had no complaints about my last controller (which I still have). I used a Google Stadia controller, which I was able to switch to bluetooth mode before Google shutdown Stadia. Although a good controller, this PS5 controller is something else.
I haven’t been able to use it on a game that takes full advantage of all the features the controller has (of the games on PC, I already played the ones I owned so I’m not going back to just test the controller), I’m already happy with it. Comfortable, not heavy, and just clean looking! It helps that I managed to acquire a specific variant of the controller. Specifically, the 30th anniversary edition. Look at this thing:
That’s hot! Like most humans, I long for nostalgia. I almost imported a Japanese 3DS because of the nostalgia look! The original PlayStation look is classic! I look at it on my desk and think back to all the classic games I’ve played on the original PlayStation. While traveling down memory lane, I was struck by something. Reader, do you remember the PlayStation 9? If you’re like, “What the fuck are you smoking?”, 1. Can’t smoke (my job forbids it). And 2. Watch this:
Seeing how we’re 4 iterations of the PlayStation away from this, is this actually the future of gaming? Sure the technology isn’t there right now, but some of these ideas are already here. Most people own wireless headphones and use the environment for games (think Pokemon Go, which just got bought out for 3.5 billion dollars). And although Virtual Reality gaming hasn’t caught on, it’s still already a thing. We’ve seen people walking around with Vision Pros, but they aren’t meant for gaming. But that’s rumored to be changing (with help from…drum roll…Sony!).
I don’t know if we’re ready for that vision of gaming. But I am excited to see where the hardware of gaming is going. PC gaming is feeling fresh now that it’s gone mobile, inspired by the Nintendo Switch. Hell, Nintendo is coming out with the Switch 2. Xbox is rumored to come out with a hand held console too! I guess I’ll just use my PS5 controller until the PS6 comes out. I’ll have to see how much closer we are to the PS9.
Let’s just hope my controller keeps getting updates till the PS9 comes out. I mean, 2078 isn’t too far away…
i’ve been busy working on a rebrand for lattepunk. i hope you like it. till then, here’s some things i read
Sex Traffickers in Colombia Use Facebook, Tinder and Airbnb to Exploit Minors | Antonia Mufarech and Natalie Lung for Bloomberg
Ghost hunting, pornography and interactive art: the weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect | Geoffrey Bunting for The Guardian
This Game Created by AI 'Vibe Coding' Makes $50,000 a Month. Yours Probably Won’t | Emanuel Maiberg for 404 Media
The Corvette ZR1’s 233-mph run had to start in a virtual world | Tim Stevens for The Verge
How Terrorgram Collective Influencers Groomed a Killer | A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, and Lukáš Diko for ProPublica
Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits | Jules Roscoe for 404 Media
The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers | Lauren Smiley for WIRED
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