Sony Wants to Turn the Playstation Controller Into a Wireless Credit Card Reader

Today in What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Sony has patented a new feature for the PlayStation that would allow players to simply tap their credit card on the controller to make purchases.

The patent was published last week under the title “Video game controller-driven information transfer,” and involves “techniques [that] pertain to improving video game system performance.”

The improvements in question involve making it easier to spend money. As with all patent documentation, the actual filing is kinda difficult to…