The Sony Leaker

SVGR, this is right up your alley. Last night there was a pitch. All under wraps. Lord knows if it will ever emerge.

I went.

The man pitching – he wasn’t from Sony Computer Entertainment. Try and think big.

Get a load of this.

“This isn’t just any controller, gentlemen. Third parties did this. Look at the transparent casing – we convinced the world this was cheap, garbage. They’ve approached the market differently since.”

He was holding up one of these:

 

“Because we taught players to know controllers 100% as their outside. The buttons, the sticks, the overall structure that fitted in their hands; exactly all they needed to know. Showing the innards was pointless. A gimmick.

But this is where the controller needs to go – inward. In a meaningful way. I’m not sure how, exactly, or even why. As required when it comes to revolutionary ideas, we must think of our controllers as being part of a family of bodies, make everyone’s minds go into these bodies at once. This will effect phones, television remotes, computers. Us that begins it, as it is meant to be. Only stuff like the cheap Dualshock or the Gameboy Colour have dared to show off the chips of a device and one day we will look back and understand why.

I got this controller in the mid-90’s. Back then, I had time to play videogames. Now I have only enough to pick up a controller and fiddle for fifteen seconds. As a kid, this thing had always been surreal to me because up to that point I’d always felt that Sony gamepads were empty or hollow, and somehow I still saw the new Mad Catz controller as hollow in essence despite stuff visibly rattling around inside the shell. That’s because the bottoms of the handles were still  hollow and they spread that theme to the rest of the casing.

Here’s the second transparent controller I received for my PS1. Notice they’ve filled the handles with a bunch of crap – lights, vibration motors – and can still be sensed as being hollow. This is not what we are going to do.”

After this, some sort of ultra-high level Sony body stood up from his seat and approached the speaker. The two entered a private room. Everyone else got sent out.

Take care, SVGR.