Sony files a patent for universal game controller

Patents do give a hint of what companies are contemplating for us in the future. Here’s a latest patent filed by Sony that envisions of giving us a single universal controller for various type of consoles. The patent says the controller is able to “emulate the controllers of popular game consoles, such as…the PlayStation, a controller made by Nintendo, Xbox game controllers made by Microsoft, Amiga CD-32 controllers, Atari Jaguar controllers, Gravis Gamepad controllers, Sega controllers, and Turbographics [sic] controllers.”

To achieve this, the controller will integrate a touch-screen LCD that has the ability to map different gamepad layouts and presumably will have haptic feedback. A controller can have one gamepad layout active at a time and overall can store up to 3 gamepad configurations.

The universal controller also boasts backward compatibility, which means it can emulate layouts of older gamepads that are not in existence today.

[Via QJ]

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