Sony’s latest patent uses a banana as a PS5 controller

Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent application to use a banana for a PlayStation controller. We know what you’re thinking, but it’s not this thing:

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The patent (spearheaded by GamesIndustry.biz on Tuesday) is actually for a method that turns a ‘non-light passive object held by a user’ into a controller, which recognizes virtual button locations on it, with a banana used as the illustrated example. . The idea of ​​Sony will possibly work with everything in the hands of the user, whether it is a coffee mug, a book, a packet of cold cuts or a tube preparation H.

“It would be desirable if a user could use a cheap, simple and non-electronic device as a peripheral video game,” the patent application states. In the examples given by Sony, players can grab and move one (or two) bananas, oranges or other inanimate objects and use them effectively as one (or two) analog sticks. In another illustration, virtual buttons on a banana are mapped, indicating that a virtual reality headset may also be involved.

It all sounds like something Dylan “Rudeism” Beck would just do love. He is the Twitch streamer who ‘plays the wrong games’ with stupid objects (or costumes) as controller. In fact, Rudeism literally played Ear Watch using a dozen bananas.

It is important to remember that this is a patent application, which does not mean that there is a final product or even plans for one.