Videogame industry's brightest minds convene in New York as part of Sony Computer Entertainment's introduction of PlayStation 4" (Press release). Sony has officially stated that starting April 2021, the community system of the PlayStation Network will be discontinued. Multiple designs were hand-drawn, digitized, and made as prototypes before the design team settled on the current design. It is largely identical to the original model, except that the touchpad now contains a "stripe" along the top which the light bar's LED can shine through, and the controller can communicate non-wirelessly when connected to the console over USB. The revision has a different power supply which uses the same type of cord as the "Slim" model, and was shown to have further improvements to acoustics.

The controller supports motion detection via a three-axis gyroscope and three-axis accelerometer and vibration. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The PlayStation 3 is backward compatible with the DualShock and DualShock 2 by the use of third party peripherals, which connect the controller to the console via a USB port. Internally, the DualShock 2 is lighter and all of the buttons (except for the Analog mode, start, select, L3 and R3 buttons) are readable as analog values (pressure-sensitive). Sony finalized a deal with the Chinese government in May 2014 to sell its products in mainland China, and the PS4 was the first product to be released.

The DualShock 4 is powered by a non-removable, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which can be charged using its micro USB connector. According to a report from Bloomberg News in January 2022, Sony had been poised to discontinue the PlayStation 4 at the end of 2021 in favor of the PlayStation 5, but due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage that made it difficult for Sony to keep up with PlayStation 5 demand, the company instead planned to continue PlayStation 4 production.

I had problems playing COD and my hands getting hot and not having good purchase on the ps3 version. This new model was sold alongside the existing model, and all existing software was compatible between the two models.He criticized the console's lack of software features and for underutilizing the DualShock 4's touch pad. As the START and SELECT buttons are no longer present, the OPTIONS and SHARE buttons respectively replace them.