First reported by Exputer, Sony has published a new controller patent that solves perhaps the greatest problem in gaming: "Controllers used for such purposes as gaming typically include materials that are relatively difficult to deform such as plastics." When I snapped a plastic panel off my DualShock 3 in 2014 after dying to the Belfry Gargoyles in Dark Souls 2 for the 12th time, my issue absolutely was that my controller wasn't "deformable" enough.
The solution, naturally, is "a controller that includes a sensor using an elastically deformable elastic member, and this sensor detects user's contact with or deforming action of the elastic member and outputs an electric signal based on the detected contact or deforming action in question."
