Sony eyes NFT transfers across multiple game platforms, reveals patent

Sony Interactive Entertainment, the video crippled goliath moving the PlayStation brand, filed a patent for a model allowing users to transportation and utilize nonfungible tokens (NFTs) crossed aggregate crippled platforms. 

Over respective years, Sony’s involvement successful crypto has been evidenced by galore partnerships and trademark registrations. Adding to this list, Sony filed a patent titled “NFT model for transferring and utilizing integer assets betwixt crippled platforms.”

Snippet of Sony’s NFT model patent filing. Source: patentscope.wipo.int

Sony’s NFT model aims to integrate NFTs into gameplay, wherein the exertion tin correspond skins and different fashionable in-game functionalities. Summarizing the patent, the abstract explained the intended features:

“Responsive to the determination, the NFT is provided to the archetypal end-user entity truthful that the integer plus whitethorn beryllium used, via the NFT, crossed plural antithetic machine simulations and/or crossed plural antithetic machine simulation platforms.”

Moreover, it added that the NFT’s ownership could beryllium transferred to different end-user entities for their ain usage crossed antithetic simulations and platforms. The beneath diagrams item Sony’s intended usage of NFTs successful gameplay.

Drawing depicting the workflow of Sony's NFT framework. Source: patentscope.wipo.int

Once implemented, PlayStation 5 users volition beryllium capable to acquisition NFT usage cases via mainstream gaming titles. As of December 2022, the full fig of progressive users connected the PlayStation Network worldwide was 112 million, which continues to turn year-on-year.

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To recognize what goes down creating palmy games, Cointelegraph precocious interviewed erstwhile Age of Empires producer Peter Bergstrom.

“There are nary black-and-white answers successful crippled design,” Bergstrom said portion highlighting that GameFi is astir adding a caller magnitude of compelling gameplay to Web2 games.

According to him, gamers don’t attraction astir the exertion down a bully game. As a result, crypto entrepreneurs indispensable incorporated “blockchain, NFTs, play and earn, AI [artificial intelligence], G5, oregon immoderate to marque a amended game, and gamers volition buy.”

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