While strategy guides and walkthroughs have been helping frustrated players complete their campaigns for ages, Sony seems to have a plan to change how players search for assistance when they get stuck with a new feature for thePlayStation 5. According to a recent leak similar to thepatent that changes the PS5’s game invite system,the PlayStation developer might be planning to replace and monetize walkthroughs themselves.
Despite Sony’s attempts todelay and hide details about the PlayStation 5,it cannot hide certain information that must be registered. In a new patent filing, Sony described a new software system that studies player data in order to understand how to get past certain challenges. It then uses its findings to provide hints to PS5 users and refer them to more microtransactions that could help them get past the current challenge they face.
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If this patent were implemented into the commercial version of the console, thePlayStation 5would process the game data through an “intentionality module” to determine what the player was attempting to do. It would draw upon machine learning, community data and inputs from the user itself, run the information through the language processor, and when the player asks how to defeat a boss, for example, the PlayStation will inform its user on the most frequently used method to win.
Although Sony has not confirmed whether this feature will appear in the PS5, it’s likely that the information is accurate because it was filed through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). While not every patented feature ends up in the final version of a video game console, the new patent does seem to indicate that Sony plans to integrate the system into one of its future releases. This is also one of many patent leaks that have revealed new information. Previously, another filing revealed amajor update to the PS5’s DualShock controller.
Moreover, the fact that the proposed system isn’t entirely uncommon increases the likelihood that it will be available on the PS5. Google Stadia also promised to help players in a similar manner with similar software. However, after the service’s troubled debut, the promised system became another one ofStadia’s several missing, broken or incomplete features.
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