r/pcmasterrace • u/Nullhitter PCMR: CachyOS | 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB of DDR5 RAM • 19d ago

News/Article Sony patents PlayStation controller that could accept tap-to-pay from phones and credit cards

https://www.techspot.com/news/113988-sony-patent-shows-playstation-controller-could-accept-tap.html
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u/CumbDawgz 19d ago

Fuckin why? If you're already paying for games wouldn't you have a card on file anyway? How would that even drive more sales, it just adds extra stupid bullshit for no reason

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u/shayed154 18d ago

The main reason is to prevent others from using the ideas. It's not the only stupid patent they have, there's also ai controllers, spherical controllers, interactive ads

Hopefully they just sit on it like they do with the others

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u/Minimob0 18d ago

And how could we forget controllers that produce scents for immersive gaming? 

Too many people in this thread don’t realize just how many silly/bad/weird patents Sony owns. They have over 90k Patents. One allows them to turn a banana into a controller! 

This thread is little more than fear-mongering. I would be surprised if this tech actually sees the light of day. 

Them patenting it just means Microsoft, Nintendo, or Valve can’t. 

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u/ArcherBTW 2012 iMacster Race 18d ago

Didn't Nintendo already have an NFC reader in the 3ds and Wii U?

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u/TheDarkWave 18d ago

Yeah, that wasn't made to read credit cards though, operating on different protocols. And their patent wouldnt have had anything to do with Nintendo because they did it a whole-ass decade before Sony filed anything.