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A new Playstation controller has come onto the gaming market.

Sony's introduced the device, which helps players who have disabilities.

It's been a long wait but it's finally arrived.

Jeremy Lecerf, 'Guizmo', is from an organisation which supports people with disabilities.

He was invited by Sony to test it, and found it user-friendly.

A report in 2021 by UK disability group SCOPE, discovered that two thirds of disabled gamers face problems when playing.

40 percent of them have experienced buying games which they later found were unsuitable.

Alvin Daniel, who's the Programme Manager for Playstation, discusses the typical problems of traditional controllers.

Sony's Access Controller has given this one-handed player the chance to play after 15 years.

Melanie Eilert: "So, with the external buttons I can attach, the number of buttons I can use increases."

Rather than players learning to use the controller, Sony's controller changes to the user.

And that's important due to the variety of disabilities.

Sony's main competitor, Microsoft, brought their controller to the market five years ago.

Now, people in the gaming industry are realising how necessary it is to include everyone.

Because online gaming in particular has allowed me to have a social life, and that's why I tend to say that video games are an extremely inclusive tool."

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