[02/18/2010] SONY CORPORATION IS WORKING ON A "UNIVERSAL GAME CONSOLE CONTROLLER" FOR AMIGA CD32 - XBOX - PLAYSTATION - Etc...

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"[0015]This document describes an adaptable or universal game controller which can be used to emulate the controllers of popular game consoles, such as, without limitation, the PlayStation.TM. made by Sony, a controller made by Nintendo, X-box.TM. game controllers made by Microsoft, Amiga CD-32.TM. controllers, Atari Jaguar.TM. controllers, Gravis Gamepad.TM. controllers, Sega controllers, and Turbographics controllers, one or more of which terms may be subject to trademark protection. For ease of exposition trademark symbols will not be further used herein."

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Last edited by ONLY_AMIGA on 20-Feb-2010 at 05:31 PM.

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Yes... I saw this a few hours ago and was quite amazed... this is some nice advertising for the ancient hardware... incredible, it may spark some interest and the history of Amiga will be better known about amongst the younger gaming generation...

Who knows... It is a shame that the CD32 could not be updated and sold as a cheap gaming console... there are plenty of people across the world, poorer families, South America, India for example... well anywhere in fact that could use a CD32 for social gaming, it just needs to be updated...

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@QuBe

Yes ! I agree with you.

And after SONY information, here are some news about Bobby, CEO of ACTIVISION BLIZZARD:
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Activision head thinks a keyboard-less Amiga would have won the 8-bit war * Perhaps one of his biggest regrets was his failure to buy Commodore in the late 1980s. He believed the Amiga "without the keyboard" could have been the greatest games console of its era. "It would have blown away the 8-bt NES of the time," he said. He raised financing and partners but was unable to secure a deal. Commodore's management at the time wanted to be in the computer business. "They wanted to compete wih Sun Microsystems."

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glad he didn't buy it - for starters the Amiga was a 16 bit machine when it first came out, not an 8-bit.... guy wouldn't even known what he was buying by the sounds of it!

Rude!

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a controller that features an LCD screen on which the buttons will be displayed...???
HORRIBLE, like playing old games on the iPOD. No thanks.

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Well, Bobby is quite big for his boots now... I am glad he didn't get it... but also equally disappointed Commodore couldn't make good on their business and just watched it unravel in front of them...

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@Rudei

Yip, that is Bobby for you!!!

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@ddni

I agree, could add up being quite a nasty contraption!

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@ONLY_AMIGA

Any free type of advertising like this For Amiga platform is good IMHO.

Mmmm, wonder if the controller is any good to use though.

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Rudei wrote: @ONLY_AMIGA glad he didn't buy it - for starters the Amiga was a 16 bit machine when it first came out, not an 8-bit.... guy wouldn't even known what he was buying by the sounds of it! Rude!

How about giving the guy some credit. He was talking about the time that the NES was huge in the US. The NES debuted in the US in 1985, the same year that the Amiga and the Atari ST were first sold. That makes those products contemporaries even though the NES was 8-bit and the Amiga and ST were 16/32. What he means is that he thought the Amiga could've beaten the NES in popularity. The NES got red hot between 1986-1988, and of course there was a sizable group of teenage gamers who were bypassing the NES for the ST/Amiga platforms to play the latest game imports from the UK/Europe. I was one of them...

People should also be mindful to remember that Amiga was originally going to be an Atari Inc. video game console that would've debuted in 1985 followed by as an actual computer the following year from Atari which was tentatively to be known as the 1850XL(D). Of course, the Tramiels ruined all of that.

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QuBe wrote: @ONLY_AMIGA Yes... I saw this a few hours ago and was quite amazed... this is some nice advertising for the ancient hardware... incredible, it may spark some interest and the history of Amiga will be better known about amongst the younger gaming generation... Who knows... It is a shame that the CD32 could not be updated and sold as a cheap gaming console... there are plenty of people across the world, poorer families, South America, India for example... well anywhere in fact that could use a CD32 for social gaming, it just needs to be updated... Q! "i am home"

It is not surprising. Sony also referenced the Atari Jaguar controller in that same filing. In their original patent paperwork for the design of the Playstation 2 case, they also referenced the case design for the unreleased Atari Falcon 040 since it directly influenced the PS2 case design.

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ONLY_AMIGA wrote: @QuBe ... [quote] Activision head thinks a keyboard-less Amiga would have won the 8-bit war

No surprise.
I would expect any 32 Bit system to be able to beat 8 Bit systems...

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ONLY_AMIGA wrote: Perhaps one of his biggest regrets was his failure to buy Commodore in the late 1980s. He believed the Amiga "without the keyboard" could have been the greatest games console of its era. ... He raised financing and partners but was unable to secure a deal.

Then I have to admit that I'm glad he didn't succeed.

I would have been very unhappy if the Amiga platform would have degenerated to a mere gaming console, as I'm one of the rare people that use the Amiga mainly for serious tasks and hardly for gaming.

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Lynxpro wrote: @Rudei ... That makes those products contemporaries even though the NES was 8-bit and the Amiga and ST were 16/32. ....

Only those Amigas equipped with 68000 or 68010 CPU were 16/32 Bit.

The MC68020 was a pure 32 Bit CPU with 32 Bit address bus and was able to address up to 4 gB Ram , while the MC68EC020 had an 24 Bit address bus and just could address 16mB Ram.
(At least according to German Wikipedia)

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