A new patent filed by Sony has seems to indicate that the company may be working on a "universal game controller" that would work on different systems while displaying the appropriate layout for each of them. "Just like remote controls, game consoles, and thus game controllers, are becoming widespread," the3 patent application reads. "It is not surprising to find more than one game console in a household, especially when competing game console manufacturers attempt to attract unconventional consumer groups in the gaming industry." "As understood herein, it would be useful to have a universal controller that would be able to work with a variety of game consoles," it continues. The application describes the system as "a game console controller [which] includes a hand-holdable housing and a touch sensitive liquid crystal display (LCD) on the housing. The LCD is caused to present, depending on what type of game console a user has selected, a controller key layout for a first type of game console or a controller key layout for a second type of game console. A key layout includes plural keys selectable by a user to input commands to a game console."
