A US law firm has now filed a lawsuit against Sony over the alleged PlayStation 5 DualSense controller that certain players experienced.
The case was filed earlier this week by a firm called Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith, which is also responsible for the previous Nintendo Joy-Con lawsuit. After learning that a number of PS5 gamers were experiencing the same flaw on Sony’s new DualSense controllers, it openly invited those suffering from the drift to join the case.
The law firm has now claimed enough interest that Sony’s controller is “flawed” because it tends to move and move across the screen without any user input, compromising the core functionality of the DualSense controller. It is further alleged that Sony had prior knowledge of this phenomenon due to online consumer complaints, as the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 suffered from similar defects but did not fix the issues.
“If the plaintiff had been aware of the deviation error before buying his PS5, he otherwise would not have bought the PS5, or would have paid significantly less for it,” the documentation concludes. Sony has not yet made an official statement on the submission.
Gyro in PS5 road is a very clear improvement over DS4, but … It wants to drift randomly in this. Just enough to miss the initial shot completely. # PS5Share, #RogueCompany pic.twitter.com/UiNjzBJz3W
– Nalverus (@Nalverus) 5 February 2021
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