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Project Leonardo is a customizable controller kit that works “out of the box” to help gamers with disabilities play more easily and comfortably. The controller bills itself as a “highly configurable” peripheral that works with many third-party accessibility accessories and combines with PS5 to enable new ways to play. With this initiative, Sony is updated in terms of accessible hardware. In software, it has already demonstrated its good work in games such as God of War Ragnarok, which won the Accessibility Innovation award at The Game Awards.
Project Leonardo “is designed to address the most common challenges among gamers with motor limitations, such as difficulty holding the controller for a long time, pressing buttons or triggers too close together or positioning fingers and thumbs optimally on a controller. conventional”, explains Sony.
Project Leonardo includes a kit of interchangeable components, including various types of caps for analog sticks and buttons of different shapes and sizes. With them you can create all kinds of button layouts. The distance between the analog stick and the directional buttons can also be adjusted. At the software level, the peripheral allows you to assign the buttons to any function and several buttons can execute the same. Settings are stored to easily switch between them by pressing the profile button.
Project Leonardo can be used as a stand-alone controller or combined with another Project Leonardo controller or a DualSense controller. In this way, a unique virtual controller can be created by combining devices depending on the needs or to play collaboratively with other people. To expand your options, Project Leonardo features four 3.5mm ports that support a variety of switches and external accessibility accessories.
“Because players can customize Project Leonardo based on their needs, there is no ‘correct’ setting,” says So Morimoto, designer at Sony Interactive Entertainment. “We want to give them the tools to create their own configurations. The controller also flexibly accepts different combinations with accessibility accessories to create unique aesthetics.”
