Sometimes I play fighting games, but usually fighting games play me. Lets all learn, grow, and become better people together...or not, I'm not your mom. Avatar by Crossmirage (She's the one I'm bullying in the drawing).
These just feel bad - I wonder why they haven't been implemented though.
Also, what is number 2 - the "he looks like he probably should die" one? I don't get that one
It's for a robotic companion that helps you while you play video games, haha.
Just total nonsense. Why would anyone need an automated 'little sibling' mode?
I mean, some people ask ChatGPT for advice on video games, and that's basically the same thing as this :p
If we're particularly lucky, we miiiight be living in the timeline where SONY benevolently patents a bunch of stuff purely to stop anybody from trying to implement it.
If we're particularly unlucky, they're still serious about making this stuff someday.
But my guess is it's a third option. They probably gave up on these ideas because they realized they wouldn't actually make money.
Real talk tho if we had to deal with commercials requiring -minigames- to end them I'd probably have become a full on pirate party activist. o_o
Like... That's a level of YIKES I hadn't even considered.
#3 is already a thing - in some mobile game ads.
But it does not speed up the ad - not to infringe on Sony's patent :v
Sometimes you just file a patent to bury it, sometimes you also get to have some fun with the bad idea.