The DualShock 4 controller for the upcoming PlayStation 4 is winning fans because of the possibilities of what the the touchpad on the front of the device could do. However, not everyone is won over by the new controller, and "SimCity" creator Will Wright is one of them.
In an interview with Now Gamer, Wright expressed his views on the new controller and what he wanted to see from the next-generation of consoles. And while there have been improvements made to the gear that goes along with gaming, Wright still feels that something is missing.
"I think the interface side still feels like a big bottleneck," Wright says. “I was never really satisfied with Kinect, it feels too sloppy, too imprecise. The idea of having to learn these 16-button controllers too, feels like a big bottleneck.”
Wright adds: “I still find the mouse to be one of best input devices ever made but it’s not very comfortable for the living room environment. I think that addressing the inputs would be one of the few things I would look at from the technology side.”
When asked about the PS4's new controller having a front touch panel and lightbar features, Wright said that things like that “might not be one solution for a number of different things.”
"I feel like the amount of data that we have coming out of these games with the rendering and the visuals is tremendous now, and it’s improved thousand-fold from when games started,” he tells Now Gamer.
"But the input going back into the computer has only just barely crept up a little bit, in terms of the number of bytes we’re inputting back into the game."