Gameindustry Biz : Sony patents a way to use bananas as controllers

[Dust]

Sony's controller tech is literally bananas | Patent Trawling

Games industry patents are an interesting mix of futuristic ideas, practical applications, and utter nonsense. They can…

www.gamesindustry.biz

"It would be desirable if a user could use an inexpensive, simple and non-electronic device as a video game peripheral," the application reads. "The present disclosure seeks to address or at least alleviate some of the above-identified problems."

As you might have guessed from the headline, Sony's answer to the problem is bananas. Well, not just bananas. What the application describes is a method that works with any "non-luminous passive object being held by a user." It could be a mug, a pen, a glass, or as in the inventors' preferred examples, bananas and oranges.

Click to shrink...

 

[adj_noun]

👨‍💼 💡 ❗

🍌 🎮

👨‍💼 💰 💰 💰

 

[Caiusto]

THE OG BOOMERANG PS3 CONTROLLER IS BACK GUYS, LET'S GO

 

[MGPanda]

 

[darkside]

that is bananas

 

[Cross-Section]

gonna bruise those bananas

 

[Dest]

yo can't believe sony bought nintendo so they could bring back donkey konga that's sick

 

[Loud Wrong]

 

[Border]

Ken Kutaragi's dream come true at last!

 

[Y2Kev]

RING RING RING RING RING RING RING

BANANA PHONE

 

[addik]

Bodes well to a PS4/PS5 port of Hades played with a Banana this time.

No longer Pomegranate-exclusive.

 

[pappacone]

I just think that Sony saw outlets reporting on every thier patent and started to make fun of them

 

[ciddative]

Finally the definitive console port can be made

 

[Deleted member 87246]

I'm disappointed the Iwata banana gif wasn't the first reply.

 

[AndyD]

Oh shit. This is for VR simulated controllers isn't it? It'll have those forward facing external cameras, what's that feature called?

 

[julia crawford]

Donkey Kong coming to Playstation All--Stars??

 

[Dyno]

So it's basically using AR to project a button onto a given object.

 

[Zebesian-X]

Violent Sony gonna leave my bananas bruised :(

 

[DrForester]

The prophecy will soon come to pass...

 

[Oldmario]

 

[bananas]

My time has come.

 

[ShinobiBk]

Banana?

 

[YolkFolk]

Banana drift

 

[Dimple]

 

[nsilvias]

Bananarang controller coming to ps6!

 

[Cactuar]

HAVE YOU GUYS NO VISION? APE ESCAPE 4 CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cactuar]

Double post due to my excitement for what is clearly a sign of the next Ape Escape.

 

[adj_noun]

Bananarang

Click to shrink...

RUFIO

 

[Eblo]

 

[Vonocourt]

Sony does what MS kin-noct?

 

[Scarlet Spider]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[pixeldreams]

They saw all those odd-controller Dark Souls runs and wanted to cash in on it.

 

[orochi91]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Click to shrink...

lmao

 

[Maximus2560]

B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Again, the controller is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

 

[Kuro]

Ape Escape lives

 

[Taurus]

I'm disappointed the Iwata banana gif wasn't the first reply.

Click to shrink...

 

[Deleted member 5725]

This jackass created a flashy PS5 controller when all they needed was in the background:

 

[Bishop89]

Ape escape lives!

 

[AndyD]

 

[jroc74]

What in thee world....

 

[Diogo Arez]

REJECT GAMEPASS

RETURN TO MONKE

 

[Icolin]

the first anprim console

 

[Pancracio17]

Sony ahead of the game here, they are covering any future banana controller any% speedruns.

 

[NotLiquid]

(volume warning)

 

[elLOaSTy]

Sony wont let you use PS4 controllers for PS5 games but you can use this banana

 

[Flounder]

Sony clearly know that fruit is the future:

 

[Deleted member 5725]

Sony wont let you use PS4 controllers for PS5 games but you can use this banana

Click to shrink...

lmao

You see, PS4 controller is too obvious. Gotta think outside of the box.

 

[Duxxy3]

Pffft already done

 

[ghostcrew]

Excuse me what

 

[Rag]

I mean Jesus himself crafted the banana to fit perfectly in our hands, so it makes sense, and it's a good source of potassium.