If sales of its latest machine go well, Sony might want to change the user experience.
Always with the aim of improving and making access to these games more and more accessible, Sony has just filed an interesting new patent.
Sony: a patent to personalize the gaming experience thanks to AI
Precisely, as revealed by our colleagues from Exputer, the firm has just published a patent titled “Custom Training System for Data-Driven Games”. While the name may sound obscure, your goal is customize the experience to suit everyone’s playstyle.
Also according to the description, “the narration can be customized according to the player’s experience”. This customization will be implemented automatically. thanks to AI-gathered information about how a PS5 owner plays.
Keep in mind that the progress of other players will also be scrutinized by this same Artificial Intelligence, so the personalization of the experience is also done according to a wider panel of data for the same level of experience.
All accumulated information will then be used to guide the player or to create a virtual opponent to practice with: “The game system generates a virtual player to challenge or train the player and improve their gaming skills. The virtual player’s abilities are also defined based on how other players have played the video game.
If such an addition may seem interesting, It remains to be seen if Sony will continue down this path and how it will actually be implemented. We know that the parent company of PlayStation has a habit of filing numerous patents, without necessarily going further in the democratization of these technologies.