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In another world, the Playstation 4’s controller would have had an analog stick above the directional pad. Sony once toyed with the idea of taking design cues from Microsoft’s Xbox controller, Sony product planning manager Toshimasa Aoki said in a recent interview with GamesBeat. According to Aoki, planning started on the PS4’s controller in 2010 [...]

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