DualShock Is The Key Ingredient To PlayStation Now

Speaking with CVG, John Koller, Marketing VP at Sony Computer Entertainment America, explained that a DualShock controller, more specifically the DualShock 3, is the key ingredient to the PlayStation Now experience (the streaming service which uses Gaikai technology, launching next summer in the USA).

It needs to go through the DualShock. The DualShock remains the key ingredient. So that controller experience needs to go perfectly. We didn’t want to utilise touch screen or anything like that because the games are best played with a DualShock.

Yes, it requires the DualShock. The DualShock 3 specifically. To enable tablet and smartphone play, you’ve got to have the DualShock 3.

This is interesting, as obviously streaming to smartphone and tablets would have otherwise required a complete rework of the controls and, in all likelihood, a more casual experience which may well have turned off hardcore gamers.

Still, if you are using PlayStation 4 to get the streaming you’ll be able to use your DualShock 4 to play, so it stands to reason that sooner or later a DualShock 4 will be usable for PlayStation Now streaming even on TVs, smartphones and tablets; similarly, if you are streaming with PS Vita you’ll use the handheld’s very own controls.