Microsoft Files Patents for Virtual Game Controller

SmartAboutThings writes "A newly discovered patent shows that Microsoft might be interested in developing virtual controllers for tablets and smartphones. A while ago, it didn't quite make sense why Microsoft would need such a piece of technology, but with the announcement of their Surface tablet, it suddenly takes on a new perspective." I think a few board games (Catan comes to mind) would be pretty playable on a moderately-sized, shared touch surface, with everyone's phone acting as their hand.

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And Microsoft Flight Simulator. That game's been around a long, long time. I had it on my 0.001 GHz commodore and it was extremely choppy. The frame rate was something like 2 FPS. Of course the reason it was so slow was because it had to redraw the whole 160x200 screen every time..... not the C64's strong point. (Of course Elite did the same thing but it was a much faster 20FPS... better programmers I guess.)