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Sony planning universal game console controller?
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article published on 21 February, 2010
According to a concept that surfaced in the US Patent & Trademark Office's online database, Sony may be looking to exploit the growing market for gaming accessories by developing a Universal Game Console Controller. The LCD touch-screen gamepad could emulate controllers for Nintendo systems, Microsoft systems and even some older legacy hardware.
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KSib
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21. February 2010 @ 06:04 |
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That's cool, I guess.
OnLive sounds more interesting though.
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scum101
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21. February 2010 @ 09:56 |
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Sounds interesting.. I guess if they are nice and well designed (I don't think sony have a great history of brilliant controller ergonomics.. never seem to fit my hands properly) and they also make them left/right handed versions they could have a winner..
Of course.. wait for the "patent infringement" legal plague taking them down.
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Xplorer4
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21. February 2010 @ 10:07 |
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I hope this thing is durable to accommodate those times when we need to be button mashing, seeing as its touchscreen this would concern me.
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21. February 2010 @ 14:43 |
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I don't know about a touch screen. Just seems like my hand will be sliding all over the place.
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EgadsNo
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21. February 2010 @ 20:52 |
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Sorry but touchscreen emulation of multi-bit imputs is a bad thing. They cannot even emulate a PS1 controller properly.
Touchscreen is usually boolean, it is ON or OFF:
Or is a 1-bit button, it can have 2 values
A 4-bit button can have 16 values
A 8-bit button can have 256 values
A 12-bit button can have 4096 values
The Ps1/2 has mostly 4 and 8 bit buttons
The Ps3 has mostly 8 and 12 bit buttons.
How are you supposed to get anywhere near the sensitivity. Fine for emulating many other systems though as they simply use boolean buttons (on the ps3 (triangle,square,x,circle- are actually 8 bit))
But even still not alot of games make use of that fact, but to discard that capability all together is making steps backwards.
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av_verbal
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22. February 2010 @ 11:51 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
That's cool, I guess.
OnLive sounds more interesting though.
whats cool about a patent that will stop any 3rd party controllers from being made unless sony gives the ok, obviously the ok will require huge stacks of cash!
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22. February 2010 @ 14:52 |
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I would like to see this actually in a youtube video or something :)
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