Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

Sony’s Project Defiant PlayStation combat instrumentality is present called the FlexStrike. | Screenshot: YouTube

Sony has shared much details astir its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event successful aboriginal June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the combat instrumentality is present called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical power buttons, restrictor gates that bounds the joystick’s movements, and the quality to link 2 of them to the PS5 utilizing a PlayStation Link USB adapter. 

Using an updated mentation of the PS Link adapter that volition beryllium compatible with USB-C ports, the FlexStrike tin besides beryllium connected to a PS5 alongside Sony’s Pulse Elite wireless headset oregon Pulse Explore wireless earbuds for an “ultra-low latency audio and dependable chat experience,” according to a caller blog post. Pricing hasn’t been revealed yet, and the combat stick’s merchandise day is inactive acceptable for sometime successful 2026.

The combat instrumentality tin besides beryllium connected to a PS5 alongside a PlayStation 5 DualSense gamepad, which Sony suggests could beryllium utilized “as an further controller for navigating menus betwixt fights.”

The FlexStrike features the aforesaid input controls arsenic the DualSense controller, including a touchpad, portion a lever-mode toggle power changes the functionality of its joystick betwixt a D-pad oregon the DualSense’s near oregon close thumbsticks. There are besides “additional customization options” that haven’t been elaborate yet, and a dedicated fastener fastener that tin forestall accidental layout changes portion playing.

A non-slip basal volition assistance support the FlexStrike from sliding astir portion utilized connected a array oregon your lap. It tin besides beryllium removed, revealing built-in retention for the swappable square, circle, and octagon restrictor gates connected the underside of the combat stick, arsenic good arsenic the PS Link adapter. Sony volition person the FlexStrike connected show astatine Evo 2025 successful Las Vegas this weekend, but besides warns that the “display portion does not bespeak last merchandise design, which is taxable to change.”