PlayStation Employee Designs Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy (9news.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: A Sony employee created a custom PlayStation controller for a 21-year-old gamer with cerebral palsy. "I honestly got choked up reading the letter..." gamer Peter Byrne told 9News. "Mr Nawabi really cared about my situation and did this on his own time to make my experience better." On his old PlayStation 4 controller, Byrne kept inadvertently pausing the game whenever his left hand hit the touchpad. "It killed me to hear how something you used to enjoy thoroughly was being ruined because of our new controller design," Sony's Alex Nawabi wrote back in a letter, including a new controller with the original touchpad re-rerouted to the back. Nawabi spent 10 hours assembling parts from three different controllers, adding "Since I've torn the controller apart to modify it, the warranty is no longer valid... I'm not sure how long this will last." But Nawabi promised that he's already planning to also build one more replacement controller.

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[alvinrod]

There's another guy who does something similar and has a site where he posts about custom controllers that he's built. It's honestly just interesting from an engineering/design perspective and seeing some of the different solutions that people have come up with to enable all kinds of people to play games.

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[rossz]

Some people must always shit on a good deed for no reason other than than they personally are incapable of performing good deeds. These people are commonly referred to as "assholes".