A look at Sony’s vision for a universal controller.

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Sony has filed a patent application for a universal game controller that will work with any game console.

This certainly isn’t something I was expecting.

The patent application was filed in August 2008 and was officially made public on Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application describes a “universal game console controller that has an LCD presenting, depending on what type of game console a user has input, a controller key layout for a first type of game console or a controller key layout for a second type of game console.”

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