Ps5’s Patent Leaks Revealed Secrets Years Ago

While Sony was especially tight-lipped about the PS5 until recent months, fans spent the last few years digging deep into the internet and uncovering the next best thing to official announcements: patent filings. While they don’t always come to fruition, the information found in patent filings steps beyond speculation and into the realm of legitimacy — they come straight from the console manufacturer, after all, and imply some level of time and resource investment from Sony. Several patents were filed in the years leading up to PS5 that gave console enthusiasts plenty to chew on, ranging from conventional tech like the DualSense design to more outlandish ideas like an emotionally intelligent, robotic gaming buddy. Now, with a much clearer picture of Sony’s PS5 plans, we’re revisiting 11 such filings to see which ideas have been realized and which have yet to come to pass. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=potential-ps5-patent-leaks&captions=true"] An Empathetic Robot Gaming Companion Sony’s Black Mirror pitch patent for a robot companion capable of tracking a player’s emotional state was filed in 2018.