Trykfølsom plade og vibrerende aftrækkere til trods, lader den største forskel på controllerne til Xbox One og PlayStation 4 til at være den samme som i denne konsolgeneration: placeringen af styrepindene.
Hvor controlleren til Xbox One har venstre styrepind placeret højere oppe end den højre, har Sony valgt atter at placere dem symetrisk. Og det er ikke noget tilfælde, siger PS4-arkitekten Mark Cerny i et interview med IGN.
"We made and tested a ridiculously broad style of controllers, and we would actually have people play games with them. And the current controller design came out of that."
"We did indeed conclude that the two joysticks on the same level works perfectly well. That did come out of our testing."
Sony bad også udviklere om feedback, fortæller Cerny.
"We sent out prototypes to major FPS creators. We looked at the top-selling titles, if they were people we could talk to, we began sending over a stream of controllers. And we would ask them things like concavity or convexity, or trigger pressure, or trigger location, or accuracy, or the like."
"It was extremely helpful to have the designers of some of the top FPSes on our controller design project."