look like Sony Obtained a new patent Game consoleStyle controller for use with your mobile device.
According to VGC, the Japanese branch of Sony Interactive Entertainment recently filed a patent that details the hardware that can be installed on both sides of the device, using its screen as the middle display. It looks a bit like Nintendo Switch, or Backbone One, which is very popular with iPhone users.
The patent shows that Sony is looking for a design inspired by DualShock, rather than a design based on PS5’s DualSense. The design consists of “the left hand grip part and the right hand grip part held by the user’s left and right hands”. In the middle, not shown in the technical drawing, the two handles will be connected by “the user can tilt the shaft and detect the tilt direction and amount of the shaft”-the gyroscope function mobile application may be enabled.
In terms of practical applications, the hardware can be used to allow you to play PlayStation games via the remote playback function of the console, or to stream them via the cloud (a la Xbox Cloud Gaming). If Sony really wants to push products like PlayStation Now to compete with the marketing power of Xbox Game Pass and Cloud Gaming, then this device may be a good way for the Japanese company to get involved in this area.
It makes sense that Sony wants to expand more to mobile games. In an October interview, Sony’s head Jim Ryan commented that he hopes PlayStation games “can be enjoyed by an almost unlimited audience”. Getting rid of the limitations of the living room or bedroom and directly entering the hands of the player certainly lives up to this ideal.
We have heard that PlayStation hopes to bring games such as Uncharted and God of War to mobile devices, and Ryan himself has clearly pointed out that mobile devices will become a tool for Sony to expand the scope of PlayStation’s influence in the future.
“We have been thinking about how players can enjoy our content and have had some early success in trying mobile games and apps to provide gamers with more choices,” he said in the aforementioned interview. “Mobile is just one of the areas we are exploring to reach millions of gamers outside of our platform.”
At the time of writing, Sony has not formally commented on these patents.
