PlayStation reveals a new arcade-style fighting stick

PlayStation has announced Project Defiant, an arcade-style warring instrumentality that looks similar it’ll beryllium cleanable to usage with the recently announced Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. Sony teased the instrumentality during the State of Play connected Wednesday earlier revealing much details successful a blog post, which says the controller volition fto you wirelessly link it to your PS5 oregon PC with PlayStation Link technology.

Sony says PlayStation Link offers “ultra-low latency” connectivity, allowing for precise responses to fastener inputs and instrumentality movement. There’s besides an enactment to plug the controller into your instrumentality with a USB-C cable.

The controller comes with a integer instrumentality that’s custom-designed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, on with buttons that person mechanical switches, a touchpad akin to the 1 connected a DualSense wireless controller, and interchangeable restrictor gates (square, circle, and octagon) for the stick.

Project Defiant comes with a carrying lawsuit with a lever spread “to support the integer instrumentality harmless during transport.” Sony plans to merchandise the controller successful 2026 and volition stock much details astir the device, including its authoritative name, successful the “months ahead.”