{"id":48080,"date":"2012-12-03T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48080"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T13:08:37","slug":"sony-patents-combo-dualshock-move-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48080-sony-patents-combo-dualshock-move-controller","title":{"rendered":"Sony patents combo DualShock \/ Move controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s worst-kept secret that both Microsoft and Sony are already working on their next-gen consoles, and of course everything that goes with that &#8211; including next-gen controllers. A patent filed by Sony in May last year suggests that the company might be developing a combo controller that includes both regular analogue and motion control in one compact unit.<\/p>\n<p>The patent is for something called a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/20120302347.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hybrid Separable Motion Controller<\/a>&#8220;, which is basically a DualShock controller that clips apart into two PlayStation Move controllers. Both parts of the controller have built-in accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers to detect motion, and can be used independently or locked together.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not this is actually something Sony is still planning to launch or simply a project that was under consideration at some time but later dumped has not yet been confirmed. Back in 2008, reports claimed that Sony was working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/sony-working-on-break-apart-motion-ps3-pad\" target=\"_blank\">something very much like this<\/a>, and four years later it&#8217;s still a no-show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll adjust the controller&#8217;s status to CONDITION AMBER: SPECULATION on MyGaming&#8217;s tech trends for the moment.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2012\/11\/30\/new-patent-points-to-snap-together-move-dualshock-hybrid-controller\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sixth Axis<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46833-ps4-developer-console-powered-by-amd.html\">PS4 developer console powered by AMD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43799-next-gen-consoles-hinted-at-by-wwe-developer.html\">Next-gen consoles hinted at by WWE developer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32636-sony-says-ps4-still-a-long-way-off.html\">Sony says PS4 still a long way off<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the &#8220;Hybrid Separable Motion Controller&#8221; Sony&#8217;s next big thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":48081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1949,1853,71],"class_list":["post-48080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-next-gen-console","tag-playstation4","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48084,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48080\/revisions\/48084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}