A brand new patent from Sony exhibits the corporate is investigating using blockchain expertise to trace digital belongings between totally different video games.
“The methods and applied sciences described herein develop the capabilities of digital belongings related to video video games, and of techniques that create and handle such digital belongings, by changing the digital belongings related to video video games from being fungible to being non-fungible.” the patent reads, through VGC.
“The methods and applied sciences described herein develop the performance of digital belongings related to video video games, and of techniques that create and handle such digital belongings, by monitoring a historical past of the digital belongings.
Monitoring the historical past of the digital belongings can embody, for instance, monitoring when, how, and by whom the digital asset was created, used, modified, rented to, rented by, offered to, bought by, licensed to, licensed by, exchanged to, exchanged by, and/or different actions.”
Sony’s lately applied PlayStation Stars caught loads of flack when first revealed, as many gamers believed they have been to be a brand new line of NFTs from PlayStation.
That’s decidedly not the case, however with this patent it could possibly be troublesome to not see PlayStation Stars as a kind of precursor to what could come, with PlayStation NFTs out there throughout PlayStation owned titles.
A lot of the gaming group has made it clear that they don’t seem to be thinking about having NFTs of their video games nonetheless, so it might be fascinating to see if this patent is ever additional progressed.
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