Overview
- Sony filed U.S. patent application US 20260199776 A1 on July 16, 2026, and multiple outlets published coverage of the application on Monday, July 20, 2026.
- The patent sketches replace the PS5 DualSense touchpad with a central touchscreen intended to display menus, system settings, messages and notifications.
- Design drawings show fully modular input pieces such as joysticks and button clusters that users can reposition and attach using buckles or a magnetic grid.
- The text describes a graphical icon interface plus a rotating dial to select icons and navigate features, and it notes the touchscreen could surface phone calls and messages with gameplay pausing when a user interacts.
- Journalists caution the filing documents a research concept rather than a product, though the idea builds on Sony’s past modular work like the DualSense Edge and could enable more customization and accessibility if produced.