Sony Interactive Entertainment has just lately filed a patent for a brand new network-connected PlayStation controller for cloud gaming.
With firms focusing extra on cloud gaming, PlayStation CEO and President Jim Ryan just lately said that Sony’s own game streaming service, PlayStation Now, will be pushed hard this year and the years to observe. “We clearly have seen the pattern in different types of leisure in the direction of the mass adoption of streaming as a way of accessing content material,” he mentioned. “It would appear possible, very possible, that gaming will observe that pattern.”
Sony just lately lowered the pricing for PS Now and this newly filed patent hints that the corporate is eager on bettering its cloud gaming service. Just like Google Stadia’s controller, Sony’s patent reveals a controller that connects with the web to cut back latency. According to Sony, “enter latency could be decreased by permitting the controller to ship inputs immediately over the community to the cloud gaming server, bypassing the shopper system.”
The patent’s description reads as follows:
A controller system for person interactivity with a server of a cloud gaming system is offered, together with the next: at the very least one enter system that generates inputs for the server; whereby the controller system communicates on to an entry system for connection to a community that connects the controller system to the server with out connecting to a shopper system; whereby the server receives and processes the inputs to render gameplay video that’s transmitted over the community for rendering to a show system that’s native to the controller system.
We’ve included some drawings which have been included with the patent down under:
While the filed patent doesn’t essentially imply that Sony will launch this network-based new PlayStation controller, it does present a glimpse at what Sony’s future plans for cloud gaming.
What do you consider this new patent? What are the probabilities of Sony integrating this tech in its new DualShock 5 controller for the upcoming PS5? Hit the remark down under.
