Sony has patented a brand new common controller button that would change the way in which players work together with video games on the corporate’s PlayStation consoles. The brand new ‘gameplay rewind’ button may let players revisit sure components of the sport which have already been accomplished and examine these sections, after which return to reside recreation play. Gamers may also have the ability to generate “bookmarks” whereas enjoying video games, and the purported rewind button would enable them to repeatedly entry the favorite components of their video games.
Sony Patents ‘Gameplay Rewind’ Button for Controllers
A patent document (via Tech4Gamers) titled “Gameplay Rewind with Person Triggered Buttons” describes a devoted button on the controller that can enable customers to generate a bookmark of the sport that they’re enjoying. The system will bear in mind these bookmarks generated by the consumer, and the sport being performed by the consumer also needs to be able to mechanically producing them.
Fig 4A exhibits the rewind button and Fig 4B exhibits the rewind interface
Photograph Credit score: WIPO/ Sony
Sony explains how such a characteristic might be helpful for players. The corporate says {that a} rewind button may let customers “evaluate” lately performed parts of the sport, in case they missed directions supplied by a non-playable character (NPC).
For instance, you would be enjoying Life is Unusual: True Colors, the place you go round a bar and discuss to patrons, report again to the bartender and repeat what two individuals ordered. In case you had been paying consideration when the patrons had been speaking to you, you’ll have the ability to give the correct order, otherwise you would possibly get it flawed. Whereas there is no penalty for offering a flawed reply on this recreation, the rewind button may have probably helped you out in such a state of affairs.
Gaining access to earlier moments of gameplay generally is a problem, and Sony says that it could contain hacking an current service to achieve entry to a specific a part of the sport. The corporate provides that even when a participant managed to report some components of the sport, they would wish to cease enjoying the sport to entry the content material.
In accordance with the corporate, players will have the ability to press the common button throughout reside gameplay, and the console will show a brand new interface that gives playback-style controls, together with a “rewind” possibility. Choosing the rewind possibility will present customers a “subset of captured picture frames from the gameplay”, based on the corporate.
These captured picture frames could be manually (or mechanically) bookmarked and saved throughout gameplay. They are going to be displayed in sequence — in reverse order — when the participant enters rewind mode, as per the main points shared within the patent doc.
In consequence, players will have the ability to work together with previous moments from the sport. For instance, they’ll replay a specific part if they don’t bear in mind directions supplied by an NPC, or they missed some data proven by the sport when passing by an vital space.
Sony’s patent doc additionally means that customers will have the ability to “work together” with gameplay moments in rewind mode, however there is no data on how that might work. It is value noting that the existence of a patent doesn’t essentially imply that Sony will embrace help for such a characteristic on its controllers sooner or later.