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Sony Patent Would Let You Tap Your Card or Phone on Your PlayStation Controller to Make a Payment

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Sony Patent Would Let You Tap Your Card or Phone on Your PlayStation Controller to Make a Payment

Both Sony and Microsoft have had a series of patents come out in the last week or so, and one of them would potentially bring NFC payments to the PlayStation 6.

Sony filed a patent called "video game controller-driven information transfer," which describes a controller with NFC capabilities that would let you tap your phone or your credit card to your controller to send information to your console. The most obvious use for this would be for payment, but it would also let you more easily import your PlayStation account to a new console.

Just like with any patent, there's no guarantee that this would result in an actual feature for any device, but if it did, it wouldn't be the first time this type of feature has existed. Pretty much every phone under the sun right now has similar functionality, which lets you tap your card to add it to your wallet, or tap bluetooth headphones to pair them without digging through the settings menu. So, it seems like a no-brainer to bring that functionality in some way to a console.

There are of course some security issues that Sony would have to work out before implementing this, particularly if Sony wants you to import your whole account via this method. Without the right precautions, it'd be easy to grab someone's phone, tap it to your controller and effectively use their account.

Apple gets around this when setting up a new iPhone or iPad by bringing up a cloud that you have to scan with the new device's camera that will then give permission to import the account data.


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