Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented what appears to be a PlayStation controller designed for mobile gaming. The patent describes a system for playing games on a device coupled with two controller grips. The controller, which resembles PS4’s Dualshock 4, is described as a left-side grip portion and a right-side grip portion gripped by the left and right hands of the user. The drawings of the device omit “a shaft portion that can be tilted by the user, and detect the tilting direction and tilting amount of the shaft portion.”
“We have been thinking about how players enjoy our content and have had some early success with experimenting with mobile games and apps to provide more choice to gamers,” said PlayStation Boss, Jim Ryan. “Mobile is just one of the areas we are exploring to reach millions of gamers beyond our platforms. PlayStation has a huge catalog of diverse first-party IP that can transition to smartphone gaming and complement our AAA games or live service games. We are exploring the mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises so please stay tuned.”
If such a device comes to fruition, it could be used in conjunction with a smartphone to play PlayStation games via Remote Play or via the cloud, similar to how third-party controller grips can currently be used to play streamed Xbox games. The patent arrives amid a fresh push into mobile gaming by the PlayStation maker.
In October, Sony Interactive Entertainment appointed former Apple Arcade content boss, Nicola Sebastiani, to lead the company’s mobile operations, following job ads that stated it was opening a new business unit to adapt its “most popular franchises” for mobile.
(All information was provided by Video Games Chronicle)
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