Sony keeps filing patents that might influence the company’s and the PlayStation brand’s future as the online gaming industry develops with new concepts.
One of Sony’s patent applications describes an MMO processing system, which might be related to the company’s future aspirations to produce more live service games.
Sony reaffirmed its intentions to engage in the live-service gaming market into 2022 via acquisitions and many new titles now in active development.
Bungie’s purchase by Sony is a blatant indication that the PlayStation Studios will now have access to personnel with extensive live-service gaming expertise.
Sony announced intentions to develop at least 10 live-service games by 2026 in February of this year.
A new multiplayer game for the PlayStation 5 will be one of these new live-service titles from Jade Raymond’s Haven Studios.
Another significant studio bought by Sony this year is Haven Studios.
MMOs invented modern live-service gaming, and Sony is now claiming the genre in a new patent.
The latest Sony patent describes an MMO processing system that uses several networks, computational devices, and the cloud.
The patent claims that computes are tasked with handling the gaming interaction between one or more users in the game environment.
Subregions and extra add are allocated to handle exchange in the game world after the number of users reaches a region’s predefined limit.
A graphic of computing units, networks, and the gaming cloud system serving as the central compute is used to illustrate the procedure in the patent.
Each compute unit transmits data onto the central calculation across a network, as seen in the figure.
Since Sony Interactive Entertainment filed the patent application, this MMO processing technology will probably be used in a future PlayStation game.
Additionally, the patent may indicate that PlayStation may release third-party MMOs on its most recent platform, PlayStation 5.
Another clue that new live-service PlayStation 5 experiences are on the way is the MMO patent.
Sony must innovate and release new titles that will characterize the PlayStation 5 as its installed base expands.
Sony seems to consider current and next technology when developing live-service games.
MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV and Warframe are profitable and draw new players.
Sony may similarly gain from the MMO genre with a strong MMO on the PlayStation 5.
The MMO genre has shown to be successful in contemporary systems. The good news is that Sony is expanding the PlayStation 5’s game catalogue with much-awaited games like The Last of Us: Part 1 and God of War: Ragnarok while foraying into the live-service market.
