Video game giant Sony Interactive Entertainment, which operates the PlayStation brand, has applied for a patent for a framework that would allow users to transfer and spend non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across multiple gaming platforms.
Sony's interest in cryptocurrencies has been demonstrated through numerous partnerships and trademark registrations over the years. In addition to this, Sony has also applied for a patent titled "NFT framework for transferring and using digital assets between gaming platforms." Sony's NFT framework aims to integrate NFTs into gameplay, where the technology could represent skins and other popular in-game features. Summarizing the patent, the abstract explains the expected features:
“Pursuant to this decision, the NFT is provided to the first end-user entity so that the digital asset can be used via the NFT on multiple different computer simulations and/or on multiple different computer simulation platforms.”
Furthermore, it added that ownership of NFTs can be transferred to other end-user entities for their own use across different simulations and platforms. The diagram below details Sony’s intended use of NFTs in gameplay. Once implemented, PlayStation 5 users will be able to experience NFT use cases through mainstream games. As of December 2022, the total number of global active users of PlayStation Network is 112 million, which continues to grow year-on-year. To understand what goes behind creating successful games, Cointelegraph recently interviewed former Age of Empires producer Peter Bergstrom.
"There are no black and white answers in game design," Bergstrom said, emphasizing that GameFi aims to add engaging gameplay to Web2 games. According to him, gamers don't care about the technology behind a good game. So crypto entrepreneurs have to combine “blockchain, NFT, earn while playing, AI [artificial intelligence], G5 or whatever to make better games and gamers will buy.”
