Sony may be developing a new deformable game controller featuring two squeezable and twistable balls, according to a leaked patent.
Console controllers have followed a basic pattern since their early days. A bridge anchored by controls on two sides. Either sides control different aspects of movement in a game which has been the same for both PlayStation and Xbox. Controllers underwent minor improvement from generation to generation but the leaked patent indicates a radical change.
How does it work?
The new game controller will consist of two flexible, robust spheres joined by a hollow tube. The inside surfaces of each sphere and the tube itself are decorated with elaborate designs. The controller’s operation depends heavily on these patterns whose distortion is converted into input signals. By translating these distortions into particular input signals for the game, a new level of control is provided.
A controller like this will be aimed towards providing the gamers with a more intimate and natural level of control. However, with no keys available, how different games choose to map their controls will be interesting to see should Sony decide to introduce this controller.
We have only seen a leaked patent so far with no official word from Sony. It is standard for big corporations to have different technologies patented for future use but this doesn’t confirm the launch of the new set of controllers.
The new controllers will be far from the DualSense controllers that came with the new PS5. However, we are yet to find out how the community would react to this new way of interacting with video games.
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