A US law firm has now filed a class action lawsuit against Sony over the alleged PlayStation 5 DualSense controller anomaly experienced by certain players.
The charges were filed earlier this week by a firm called Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith, which is also responsible for the previous Nintendo Joy-Con drift class action lawsuit. When it learned that a number of PS5 players were experiencing the same defect on Sony’s new DualSense controllers, it openly invited those suffering from the anomaly to join the case.
The law firm has garnered enough interest and now claims that Sony’s controller is “faulty” as it can float and move across the screen without any user input, “compromising the core functionality of the DualSense controller.” It further claims that Sony was aware of this drifting phenomenon in advance through online consumer complaints as the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 suffered from similar defects but failed to fix the issues.
“If the plaintiff had been aware of the drift error before purchasing his PS5, he otherwise would not have bought the PS5 or paid significantly less for it,” the petitioner concludes. Sony has not yet made an official statement regarding the filing.
Gyro in PS5 pad is a very marked improvement over DS4, but … It wants to drift randomly in this. Just enough to completely miss the first shot. # PS5Share #RogueCompany pic.twitter.com/UiNjzBJz3W
– Nalverus (@Nalverus) February 5, 2021
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