PS5 DualSense reveal coming today — watch it right here

PS5 DualSense reveal coming today — sentinel it right hither

(Image credit: Geoff Keighley)

Editor's Notation : Check out our full breakdown of Geoff Keighley's PS5 DualSense hands-on .

We've known what the PS5 controller, the DualSense, volition await like for a long time now. Sony revealed the controller out of nowhere in a blog post a few months back, and it was a good fashion to keep fans engaged while Sony waited to evidence off the console's full design. Since and then, though, we haven't had much new information almost the DualSense. That will all alter today, equally nosotros get a deep dive on the controller as part of the online SummerGamesFest.

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Information comes from Geoff Keighley, curator of the SummerGamesFest. For those who haven't been keeping up with it, SummerGamesFest is sort of a grab-all replacement for E3, since we didn't have a big, unified, physical gaming expo this twelvemonth.

And then far, SummerGamesFest has been a mélange of indie and mid-upkeep game announcements, plus some bigger reveals from companies similar Sony and Epic Games. (SummerGamesFest was also the first time we saw PS5 gameplay in action, courtesy of Epic Games' bespoke demo, Lumen in the Country of Nanite.)

Keighley's tweet is pretty simple:

"This is the #PlayStation5 DualSense Controller," he writes. "Tomorrow at Apex ET / ix am PT, information technology's time to go hands on."

This is the #PlayStation5 DualSense Controller. Tomorrow at Apex ET / nine am PT, it'southward time to go hands on. Can't wait to tell you lot about my experience. https://t.co/Hp7WuLrjXk #SummerGameFest pic.twitter.com/hvxTouNrc1July 16, 2020

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Fastened is a 19-2d video of Keighley picking the controller up off of a table. That'southward nigh all there is to it. The DualSense looks like a controller — merely nosotros already knew that. Its curvature is a little more than astern-facing than I would take anticipated, but that's non shocking, given the angles on the DualShock 4. Some fans accept expressed business that the DualSense would be uncomfortably large, but that doesn't seem to be the case, unless Keighley has truly enormous hands.

So, there yous have it. We'll get a hands-on demo of the DualSense controller a 12 PM ET on July 17 from Keighley himself. Keighley has the correct pedigree for the job, every bit an experienced journalist from G4 and GameTrailers. More recently, he's hosted The Game Awards and worked behind the scenes at Gamescom, Germany'southward biggest gaming expo. If anyone knows his manner around a PlayStation controller, it's him.

The DualSense hasn't elicited as stiff a reaction equally the PS5 panel itself. While fans bickered (and continue to bicker) incessantly well-nigh the PS5's appearance and color scheme, DualSense commentary has more or less restricted itself to the colour scheme, which is a polarizing black-and-white two-tone. On the other hand, PlayStation controllers have always come in a variety of colors, and the DualSense volition probably be no exception.

Tom's Guide volition cover the reveal when it happens, so stay tuned for our impressions of what Keighley has to evidence off. Hopefully, Sony volition allow other journalists become hands-on with the PS5 and its accessories sooner rather than subsequently.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom'due south Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing groundwork, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and technology. After hours, you can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.