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Sony considered ditching Vita analogue sticks
Sony toyed with removing the Vita’s twin analogue sticks entirely while prototyping the device, the platform holder has revealed. Speaking in an interview on the PlayStation Blog, Sony designer Tokashi Sogabe revealed that his team discussed various alternative plans for control inputs, including “flat slide pads”. “We also built a prototype with flat slide pads, a bit like what you have on your laptop, but it just didn’t feel responsive enough for gaming and we learned that you need that physical response of tilting the stick to feel like you have total control. Read more…
