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/MrDrSirLord 19d ago

I feel like this has to be more of a "it gives us precedence to sue if others do it" because by recent slightly positive moves in the Xbox and Microsoft gaming departments it'd have to be actual corporate suicide if they put mid rolls in the next microslop title

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u/celerypie 18d ago

Their parent company is baking ads into core parts of their operating system...

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u/MrDrSirLord 18d ago

The ads in the corner of the task bar are very non intrusive, easy to ignore.

If they put adds like that on a video game it's probably going to receive an insane amount of backlash that whatever game they shove it in will probably go into a deficit.

Idk maybe I'm too bright eyed and optimistic to think that one of the largest corporations in the world has a firm enough grasp on marketing to not blow their foot off the first chance they get.

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u/celerypie 18d ago

No such thing as non-intrusive ads. If they were, microslop wouldn't put them. It's to set precedence and soften up their clients.