This breaks many games
Breaks trophies too, unless Sony disables them when it’s used.
Imagine just rewinding in Elden Ring? No more consequence for death, just un-lose your souls and dodge better without actually learning the tells.
What would be the point?
Let them ruin their own experience? Or it’ll make Elden Ring much more accessible to casual players.
Would be better to watch a Let’s Play, in my opinion. I don’t know why someone would want to play a game only to engage with none of its core gameplay features.
That is engaging with them, just in a way that they’d like to engage with them. From the time they bought the game, it ought to be theirs to do with as they like.
I mean, sure, they have the right, insomuch as someone can buy a game on disc and use it as a coaster I guess. But it ruins the point of it, in my opinion.
I’m not saying people are wrong to enjoy media and spend money however they want, but it’s like a concert venue installing fancy couches to put in the lobby for people who buy tickets to a show but don’t want to actually watch it. It just doesn’t seem worth it.
People have been save scumming games for as long as saving has been available. A number of PC games have had instant save/load at any point for decades. This wouldn’t be much different
This needs to be killed as we have prior art (Emulators, Braid, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, heaps of racing games, etc).
If their only significant addition is “we a have a button for it” then we need to ask if a button qualifies as “inventive” in 2024?
Edit:
Announcer: Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE PUSH of a SINGLE BUTTON! The beeyootiful shiny button! The jolly candy-like button! Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?
Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.
They invented a quick save button?
This is designed to work with all games so it’s more similar to how many emulators implement quick save than how it works in most games. I suspect or rather hope that it’s as fast (instantaneous) as it is in emulators.
It also appears that it’s supposed to rewind like you can do in some racing games.
It’s more complicated than a simple quick save button found in mostly older games. It’s a neat feature but I would obviously prefer that they didn’t get the patent so Xbox also could implement something similar.
