New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible

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New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible - Insider Gaming
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... sooooo ... chapters?

I think this is more granular than that. More like; pages, paragraphs, or even sentences than chapters.

Sounds cool and all but I heavily doubt they would do the work to implement it like that. Replay value doesn't add market value in the view of the producers. So there is not much money to be made from the large amount of work this requires.

Of course if they ever do it, feel free to correct me, people from the future

The patent shows that the save states stream through an API, it’s likely this isn’t for local save but for people streaming games. It will open streaming possibilities like letting audiences pick up exactly where the person they’re watching is, or other audient interactions like “beat this section quicker than I did.”

In that case there is little difference to just sharing a save file, which everybody can already do. If this is everything that the patent covers, then I'm against them having a patent for it. That idea is so generic and nothing somebody should be allowed to have control over

I don’t disagree as iirc the Stadia had a “Share State” feature that isn’t a far cry from this - though that didn’t rely on trigger points.