{"id":97884,"date":"2016-07-06T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97884"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:22:31","slug":"sony-files-mysterious-patent-possibly-for-pc-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97884-sony-files-mysterious-patent-possibly-for-pc-controller","title":{"rendered":"Sony files mysterious patent – possibly for PC Dualshock Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony has requested the certification of a patent for a “wireless adapter” reports DualShockers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The reason this new adapter is shrouded in mystery is because the patent pertains to a Bluetooth adapter that draws power from a 5V source and USB connector – specifications an official DualShock 4 controller wouldn’t use as it already has full Bluetooth support.<\/p>\n

Eurogamer believes the most likely use for the adapter can be “extrapolated from the \u201cZ\u201d at the beginning of the second part of the code”.<\/p>\n

“The letter is normally associated with controllers. The CUH-ZWA1U could be a proprietary dongle to connect a DualShock 4 to other devices like PCs, ensuring full compatibility for games and the recently released remote play”.<\/p>\n

This could mean we see official DualShock 4 support for PC games in the future.<\/p>\n

The patent is currently confidential until January 2017, so expect an announcement from Sony as to the secretive adapter before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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This is why Sony has requested the certification of a patent for a mysterious “wireless adapter”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":95813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,3,11681],"tags":[31,19131,9148,1853,85],"class_list":["post-97884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-adapter","tag-controller","tag-playstation4","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97886,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884\/revisions\/97886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}