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Topics: PlayStation, PlayStation 5, Sony
The PlayStation 6 may be far in the future but that has not stopped Sony fans from uncovering some potential features for the company’s next big console.
You may be thinking, wasn’t the PlayStation 5 Pro just realised?
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The answer would be yes, it was released just last month and even the PlayStation 5 itself only launched in 2020 so we can safely assume that the PlayStation 6 won’t be arriving until 2026 at the earliest.
However, Sony is reportedly drawing up plans for its next console with a recent discovery uncovering a patent which would allow the PlayStation controller to feature a dedicated rewind button.
By making use of the rewind button, players will be able to replay key moments of gameplay as well as snip, bookmark and share it across social media.
Spotted by Tech4Gamers, this new patent gives us a hint that the PlayStation 6 controller may look a bit different to the current DualSense by adding this dedicated rewind button, for one thing.
As we all learned to do with the VHS back in the day, activating the rewind button will bring up a video’s timeline which can then be played around with at will.
This will make clipping a whole lot easier than having to press the button in the middle of gameplay and instead you can worry about all of that once you have finished up playing for the day.
As Sony itself says, "accessing recent gameplay while the player is playing a video game is difficult”.
As well as helping with clipping, this new feature will also come in handy when players want to relisten to conversations that may have happened during certain moments in-game.
Did that NPC hint at the location for hidden treasure but you can’t remember where they said exactly? Utilising the rewind function will save you if your memory is anything like mine.
As it stands, this new Sony feature is merely a patent as of now so it may never fully come to fruition with the arrival of the PS6.
However, there is no denying that it would be a handy addition indeed.