That's twice you've made that claim, but I'm not sure where you're getting it from. The summart (and the article) say explicitly: "You won't be able to use Sony's DualShock 4 *or* other third-party PS4 gamepads to play PlayStation 5 games,"

Dude, every electronic signal is running through the *hardware* layer. You press the X button on the peripheral which converts to an electronic signal in the wires of the controller *hardware*. The bluetooth *hardware* in the controller turns that electronic signal into a wireless signal. The bluetooth *hardware* in the console turns that signal into an electronic signal which it sends to the I/O/Interrupt handler *hardware* which then sends the message to the software that is currently running on the console. All of this is invisible to the user, of course, since the uses just sees a prompt on screen to press the x-button and when they do, the screen responds, but all the communication between the controller and the screen is happening in the hardware layer. If one end of that hardware layer is being revised, it makes complete sense that the other end of the hardware layer also needs to be revised.

No it isn't. A version of Office is a *software* revision, this is a *hardware* revision. It makes complete sense that a new hardware system will require a new hardware controller to control it.

Interestingly enough, they put the retail value of the first prize (the actual use of your song, with credits in manual etc) as $1000. Does this mean any independent band with $1000 could just buy their way into Guitar Hero II and forget about the whole competition process?