| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: Sony patent turns PlayStation controller into payment terminal https://videocardz.com/newz/sony-patent-turns-playstation-controller-into-payment-terminal |
Zkuq said:
It's absolutely criminal what kind of stuff you can patent. They basically patented something someone probably came up, or could easily have come up, with in a brainstorming session. There's no tangible work behind the core idea. That said, I'm not sorry to see the adoption of such an idea hindered by a patent. |
This is not some BS patent like the one about yelling the name of the product to skip the add. This patent involves adding extra hardware to the controller to make this a possibility, meaning that it's someting only Sony can do with their first party controllers.
This is easily something Sony is actually interested in to boost income from microtransactions and such.
Please excuse my bad English.
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