By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor Published: 12:28PM GMT twenty-two February 2010
Sony has lodged a obvious surveying plans for a judgment video games controller Photo: REUTERS The patent, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, shows a controller that can work with past and benefaction consoles, together with the Amiga CD-32 and Atari Jaguar.
It will even work with some-more � la mode opposition consoles, together with those from Nintendo, Sega and Microsoft. The controller is written to obey the gamepads and peripherals used by alternative platforms.
Autumn launch for Sony"s PS3 suit controller CES 2010: Microsoft Project Natal set for Yuletide launch Sony Ericsson reject Google Blu-ray front sales climb by 167pc Sony rumoured to launch Nintendo Wii-style controller at E3 Sony PSP Go to stand in as ebook reader"It might right afar be appreciated that between alternative advantages, the controller provides for back harmony so that it might be automatic to obey the key blueprint of an comparison controller that might no longer be available," reads the filing.
Illustrations concomitant the filing show a device with a touch-screen display, that could be automatic to replicate the funcitionality of an additional games controller. Users would be means to store up to 3 pre-programmed controller interfaces in the device"s mental recall for easy entrance in future.
It would additionally have speakers and a "rumble function" to emanate an immersive gaming experience, and could be powered by batteries for wireless gameplay.
"Just identical to remote controls, diversion consoles, and to illustrate diversion controllers, are apropos widespread," reads the filing. "It is not startling to find some-more than one diversion consoles in a household, generally when competing diversion console manufacturers try to capture radical consumer groups in the gaming industry. As accepted herein, it would be utilitarian to have a judgment controller that would be means to work with a accumulation of diversion consoles."
Sony is rising the next-generation gaming system, Arc, this autumn. It"s a identical judgment to Nintendo"s Wii console, but the Arc wand-style controller will concede for some-more accurate transformation than the Wiimote.
It will contest without delay opposite Microsoft"s Project Natal complement this Christmas. Natal utterly does afar with the need for a earthy controller, instead utilizing a camera to collect up the gestures and transformation of players, and interpret that in to on-screen action.
One industry researcher believes Natal will outsell the Arc by around five to one. Michael Pachter, an researcher with Wedbush Morgan Securities, pronounced that Sony"s controller could have problems "gaining traction" since it"s not an "in-the-box solution".
"That will probably extent embracing a cause [of the Arc] to one or dual million at the outset," pronounced Pachter. "Natal is different. It"s usually a camera, it"s expected to be cheaper, and I think it will come in the Xbox 360 package with new consoles once launched, definition far deeper penetration."
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