To me it sounds more like hitting f8 reload but being able to choose the f5 quicksave from any point in the game, not just the points that you remembered to save or your most recent f5?
Comment on New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible
sirico@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Ohhh they’re doing an apple and inventing F5 + F8 save states
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s not what the article says. This is basically a save game for every-ish moment in the gameplay + a facility to launch the game at the scene you’re watching a video of, which is massive amounts of data + progress sync, so if they figured out how to do that at scale, it’s legit innovation.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
So isn’t this like what stadia wanted to do with its integration with YouTube where you could watch someone’s letsplay and there’d be a button that could take up to where they were so you can experience it or see if you can do better?
How were they able to patent it if something like this was already described by another company years ago?
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not enough info in the article to tell the difference, I’d say. Maybe because this should apply to your local games? IDK
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So… they’re inventing level codes you can re-enter to start from there.
I’m massively impressed by Sony, clearly revolutionary technology right there.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you can encode your entire game progress into that level code, then it’s just that, yep.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Yes, that’s why NES games sometimes had 50 character codes.