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Apple Patents DualShock-Style Game Controller

Posted on Thursday, July 26 @ 10:49:56 Eastern by Sebastian_Moss

With a revenue of over a 100 billion, legions of adoring fans and an iOS empire that dominates the mobile market, Apple isn't a company anyone wants to go up against. That's why Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo might be eyeing a recently published patent with worry.

Filed in March and published today, the patent GR has discovered lists various inputs and interactions between iPhones, iPods and Apple TVs, including FIG. 6, which "is a schematic of a video game controller for the standalone media player of FIG. 4 or a video game system".

FIG. 4 is an Apple TV, which could easily become a video games console with an upgrade, and technically already can play iOS games over airplay. Currently, core gamers don't take the platform too seriously due to the lack of buttons that severely limits gameplay.

The controller is also shown to be able to connect to an iPhone/iPod Touch and presumably will be able to connect to an iPad if it ever becomes real. Connection is shown to be wireless, using Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and NFC tags, rather than the cable depicted.
If the controller does become a reality, it'll likely have a few design tweaks to stop it looking identical to the DualShock, but any type of physical controller from the industry behemoth would send ripples through the gaming world.  Also make it all the easier to enter iPhone cheats.
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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 10:56 am
    Mother of God...***** about to get real.
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  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 10:58 am
    Being an Apple accessory, this controller will retail for about $75 and then be rendered unusable by the next iOS update.
    0 0
  • Sebastian_Moss
    Sebastian_Moss
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 11:10 am
    But, being an Apple accessory, tons of people'll buy it...
    0 1
  • cheesegod99
    cheesegod99
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 11:16 am
    that is not a "dual-shock like" controller. It IS a dual-shock controller.
    0 0
  • cereal13killer
    cereal13killer
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
    I've seen that controller someplace before...
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
    It really does look 100% like a dualshock. Kind of insane that they'd submit a patent with the controller looking like that.
    0 0
  • Sebastian_Moss
    Sebastian_Moss
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
    And even more insane that it got published.
    0 0
  • theoutcast32
    theoutcast32
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
    This will fail. Causal gamers will not buy this.
    0 0
  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
    its casual gamers that just might. i cannot see the appeal this would have for a hardcore gamer.
    0 0
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
    I really don't think that having a picture of a game controller in the paper means they are trying to patent that controller design or anything. Look further in the paper and there is literally a picture of an Xbox 360. I don't understand patent papers or anything, but I think the important aspect is the means by which these different devices communicate (how the iphone controls the TV, how the controller controls the appleTV). Also, my understanding is that it is not for the Patent Office to decide which patents to grant based on if they are valid. Validity is for the courts to decide.
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  • sandineyes
    sandineyes
    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
    Actually on page 31, there is a part called "What is claimed" which seems to imply that what Apple is trying to patent is the method and implementation by which a device could discover controllable devices, allow those devices to be selected, and then controlled by this device. So, as far as I can tell, they want to patent a "universal" remote control, but clearly they are not limiting themselves in the physical implementation of such a remote. So I think that the appearance of the video game controller is just an example of an individual controller among an myriad of individual controllers that could be replace by a single device.
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  • DarthDiggler
    DarthDiggler
    Joined: Mar 2011
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
    You mention FIG. 4 but don't show it.

    Also the FIG 45A, B, C appears to be an iPhone, iPod that is being used as a controller. That is not going to compete with Consoles. TouchScreens add about 100ms of delay to the gaming experience, that's why 99% of touch screen games suck.

    Apple does have a ton of developers under their wing for the iPhone/iPad/iPod, but I don't see them all becoming Naughty Dog over night and ushering in great games for a platform that was mostly known for touch screen diversions and not real core game experiences.
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  • DarthDiggler
    DarthDiggler
    Joined: Mar 2011
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
    I see the PDF link now.
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
    The future is messed up...
    0 0
  • ninjafoodstuff
    ninjafoodstuff
    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 at 7:11 am
    I don't think this patent implies Apple is making a dualshock style controller. The patent concerns the ability to emulate different controllers via an iphone.
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