Leaked images appear to show a black alternative to the PS5's DualSense controller, as well as its dimensions.
PlayStation tends to take an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach to its video game design. Its last three consoles have all been black boxes, and the cases in which the games for those black boxes are sold in are blue boxes. Plus, its DualShock controllers have remained almost untouched, aside from the odd tweak here and there between generations.
Which is why the complete overhaul of the trusty DualShock design for the upcoming PS5 would have come as quite a surprise to a lot of gamers. It is still quite clearly a PlayStation product, but it is the biggest step away from the trusted and true design that has served its consoles so well to date. Plus, the console itself looks more like a miniature white spaceship and nothing at all like the black blocks of the last three generations.
That doesn't mean the PS5 won't come in black, of course. In fact, some unverified images of a black alternative to the white DualSense controller have leaked online. The grainy pics surfaced on Twitter and appear to have originated on the True-Gaming forum. What's more, they show the potential dimensions of the DualSense which PlayStation is yet to officially reveal.
The images show that the controller is 180 mm long and 150 mm high. To put that into perspective, the PS4's DualShock 4 is roughly 155 mm long and 100 mm high. If the images are indeed real, then the belief that the DualSense will be significantly larger than the DualShock 4 appears to be rooted in truth. The legitimacy of the images is very much in question, though.
For starters, these are hardly high-res, high-quality images we are talking about here. The fairly bland design of the controllers when compared to their white counterparts also has us doubting whether these pics are legitimate or not. There's a very real chance that the controllers are real images, but of prototypes for DualSenses that were part of a dev kit.
Source: True-Gaming forum