The French PlayStation website hinted at the next-gen controller being supported by the current console; we heard from another person that the PlayStation 5 reveal will happen shortly.

If you look at the official French website of PlayStation, you’ll see a table that compares the properties and the specs of the base PlayStation model (codename CUH-1000 and CUH-1110), the PlayStation 4 Slim (CUH-2015), and the PlayStation 4 Pro (CUH-7000). Take a look at the last line on the screencap below: when it comes to the supported DualShock controllers, all three PlayStation 4 variants display „DS4/DS5!” This not only could confirm that the next-gen controller could be named DualShock 5 (it’s not called as such yet), but it could also mean we could use the old console with the new controller. Sure, it could be a mistake, so we decided to investigate a bit…

The site says it was last updated on January 19, 2017, so we decided to open the archive of the Internet, and on archive.org, we found a single (!) capture from March 20, 2017, and to our surprise, it already had „DS4/DS5!” Did PlayStation France know prematurely about the new controller? Or did someone add that as a joke? (If so, how on Earth did nobody notice it in the past three years!?)

Meanwhile, on Twitter, David Jaffe has also started to speculate about the PlayStation 5 reveal. (We intentionally use the term speculate, as even he said that he knows nothing, and even if he knew company secrets, he still wouldn’t say anything…) But let’s see two tweets from him, and not because he was the creator of the Twisted Metal series (and also not because he laid the foundations for Kratos’ success by directing the first God of War on the PS2 in 2005!): „The PlayStation 5’s reveal is less than four weeks away. Sony knows hardcore gamers are hanging on every scrap of info and know that just because Microsoft dominates the conversation at the moment, that’s an easy thing to change when they are ready to reveal (assuming the reveal is good). I want to say it’s the worst kept secret in games right now. February reveal as they did for the PlayStation 4,” Jaffe wrote.

However, nothing is official yet, so we should wait for the ever more likely possible PS5 reveal – at the event, Sony could confirm that the DualShock 5 would indeed support the PS4. (But how much will it cost?)

Source: WCCFTech, PSL

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