This article is more than 10 years old. When Sony debuted their redesigned DualShock controller for the PlayStation 4, its light bar turned out to be a very divisive addition.

Sony finally dims DualShock 4 light bar in new 1.70 update GameCentral Published April 30, 2014 12:20pm Updated December 10, 2019 9:37am Comments ...

However this week it has been revealed by Jed Ashforth, senior designer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, that the DualShock 4 controller light bar is there to support Sony’s new Project ...

Sony even caved in to allow players to dim the light bar, but hindsight is 20/20, and now the light seems like something that would have been obvious if we had known about their VR beforehand.

From dimming the DualShock 4's light bar to removing always-on HDCP, these updates are going to make the PS4 better than ever, and answer some of the loudest criticisms from the gaming community.

Although it has no plans to disable the controller's light bar, Sony allows PS4 users to alter the feature's brightness. Unveiled in March, Project Morpheus is due for a 2015 release.

Sony's PlayStation 4 may be winning the next generation battle against the Xbox One but there's one feature that has caused gamers quite a bit of grief: the light bar.