As reported by VGC, Sony would have filed a new patent of PlayStation 5, with the code name "Direct Gameplay“, Which would allow players to access specific game sequences directly from the console's home screen. The patent in question, released this month but filed in 2018, describes the direct launch of game content or activity from a dynamically generated menu, which would be "unique" to each title.
The feature would allow users not only to catapult directly into multiplayer matches, but also into specific chapters of a given game, all directly from the PS5 main menu, without having to go through further interfaces. Furthermore, the patent would seem to suggest that the new feature allows visualization dynamic content, such as trophies and the activities of friends online.
The patent specifications would find confirmation not only from the conference held last week by Mark Cerny, who illustrated a very similar feature of the operating system during the presentation of the hardware architecture of PlayStation 5, but from his own statements during an interview with microphones. of Wired in 2019. Here is what was declared:
While it will be fast enough to start the games, we don't want the player to have to start the game, see what happens, start the game, see what happens. The multiplayer game servers will provide the console with the set of joinable activities in real time. In addition, the games in sigle player will provide different information, what missions you could do and what rewards you could receive for completing them, all these choices will be visible in the user interface. As a player, go straight to whatever you want.
We remind you that it is Sony, that Microsoft products, have confirmed that next gen consoles will debut as planned during Christmas festivities of the 2020, therefore, they will not suffer any delay due to the coronavirus.
