Here’s a little something odd to start your week, courtesy of Sony.
The PlayStation 4 creator has hooked up a robot to a DualShock 4 controller, which the machine is using to control LittleBigPlanet 3. Don’t worry, Sony hasn’t created an android smart enough to play a 2D platformer (which is obviously the first step in a human-exterminating revolution). Rather, the robot is submitting inputs sent by observers from this site.
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Still, it’s certainly a weird little thing Sony’s got going on. Maybe someday we’ll all be having robots playing our games at home for us while we’re away. Or we could be practical and use cloud-streaming.
Eh, the robot thing sounds more fun.