You want disc? Fuck you, now your buttons are gone.
PlayStation is speed running losing business for PS6.
i don’t really like the idea of digital buttons because if anything happens to the software they stop working (which is why i’d love if mobile phones brought back physical nav buttons)
Oh you wanted more than the two buttons the software provides? We at Sony have found that our customers prefer to have to purchase more software buttons as needed rather than accidentally clicking an unneeded button during an epic boss battle and lose!
They are clearly ignorant to the backlash related to car entertainment centers with no buttons.
I can conceive of a controller with a surface like those pin art toys
with a membrane stretched over it so that you could reprogram the location and shape of the buttons at will and still have a tactile experience…
…but it would be needlessly complicated, expensive, almost certainly less functional than actual buttons, and more prone to failure. So, not really a meaningful or desirable improvement.
You have the subscribe for the buttons separately
My kid is still young and is growing up with a lot of their gaming done on a tablet. They’re remarkably adept with touchscreen controls, but it just seems so limiting to me.
I eventually connected a Bluetooth controller to their tablet and suddenly they’re amazed by how much easier gameplay is!
They’re just hell bent on making sure absolutely nobody wants the PS6.
Miss me with that shit. If I wanted virtual buttons I’d play on my phone.
Even when I play mobile I have a controller for the landscape games that need more than
threeinputs. Make that two – I play Sonic on mobile. Move, jump, spin. Even spin is a combination of the first two
For anyone unfamiliar with patents - companies like Sony file a shitload of patents every year that they never end up using. Until more info comes out, the patent itself means little.
For context, Microsoft has a total of 124462 patents globally, not all of which have been granted. These days it files about 3000 new patents every year. A lot of them are very vague, some don’t make any sense at all, and many are never put to any use.
Apparently Sony has even more patents than Microsoft, currently sitting at nearly quarter million. However, only a third of them have been granted so far.
I’m reminded of a lobby quote in John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (by your leader, an oligarchic energy company head)
“Note to self: Patents are cheap, and a reliable source of income.”
“In order to keep up with changing player demands, we at PlayStation are announcing that controller buttons will no longer be available physically.”
“From now on, each game will come with its own separate subscription service, where you can subscribe to the buttons for the controller device in digital form only. The game publishers will also sell skins for the buttons at additional cost, also only in digital form.”
“Play has no limits.”
The controller only has a microphone. You talk to the AI with the controller and the AI plays the game for you.
Sony really want to go out of business don’t they.
NO GODDAMMIT
