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Sony Patent: stopping your game play to sell you Soda
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ScreenSplitter
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Is it just anyone else that feels the almost aggressive urge to never buy a product that is forced upon them in the form of advertising?
djplaeskool
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Revolutionary
Member
Oh look, another ridiculous Sony patent that will never see the light of day.
NullPointer
Member
They'll just wait until their captive console base is a decent size and then patch it in.
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qizah
Unconfirmed Member
LOL.
The Best Brand Soda made me laugh.
The Best Brand Soda made me laugh.
I don't understand why they would need a patent for this... This already happens with flash content (although, more with non-interactive content, but you can still find it in games). The only way I find this appropriate is in F2P versions of games. They could still sell a paid version of say, LittleBigPlanet 7, but also have a free version available to download with ads every x minutes of gameplay. Let's people play their games for free, but they still get to make money. Less hassle than trying to mod their console and play pirated games too.
demosthenes
Member
Doubt this will be for full retail games, but this would make me drop Sony products if it were.
AstroNut325
Member
I'm imaging playing Metal Gear Solid 4 with this implemented! In the middle of a gun fight, everyone on screen pauses when all of a sudden Drebin rolls out with blaring music, chicks dancing in bikinis and tossing everyone a Pepsi! Then Solid Snake opens the can, gives some crappy one-liner about Pepsi, drinks it, joins the dancing bikini girls, and then resumes the gun fight.
Why yes. I would be greatly interested in this!
Why yes. I would be greatly interested in this!
outunderthestars
Banned
I would imagine this is for free-to-play titles, and not for paid content.
Why would you do that?
Member
If it's implemented in a free game (i.e. a game that's normally retail, but there's a free ad supported game), then I'd be cool with it. In fact, I hope we can get free, ad-supported versions of retail games.
Put it in a retail game, and uh-uh, uh-uh, no way. You can put that in a toilet.
Put it in a retail game, and uh-uh, uh-uh, no way. You can put that in a toilet.
NullPointer
Member
They've already tried their hand at injecting ads into paid content after release. Why the assumption they'd only use this with free-to-play titles?
Speedymanic
Banned
Wipeout HD.
You guys are missing the point, unlike an Ad during a loading screen, this is perfectly seamless and smooth while the player is at the height of engagement levels. This is absolutely brilliant!!
EDIT: Speaking seriously, Sony is probably just doing this to add to their patent portfolio. It's a smart move, considering how many games are moving to the free to play model. With the patent, they can maybe get a few licensing dollars out of it. In all likelihood, MS would be the first to try this during actual gameplay.
EDIT: Speaking seriously, Sony is probably just doing this to add to their patent portfolio. It's a smart move, considering how many games are moving to the free to play model. With the patent, they can maybe get a few licensing dollars out of it. In all likelihood, MS would be the first to try this during actual gameplay.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
I can't wait to see this shit pop up in games. Gonna be funny watching madden and Call of Duty players get advertised mountain dew while the Fifa players get advertised Jarritos.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
On the one hand, I'd like to think Sony's patenting this simply to prevent this from happening. But basically, the way the industry works is that things must get worse. This will come to pass.
Uno Venova
Banned
Just a patent like hundreds of others, probably won't come true.
Unregistered007
Banned
Why they fuck are people bitching? Its a free service. How fucking dare Microsoft to put adds on a PAID online service.
Speedymanic
Banned
oh dear.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Is the console vending soda? If so Ill strongly consider this.
Escape Goat
Member
They should just make games like this and get it over with. Who's with me?
djplaeskool
Member
Make that Ruby Red Squirt and I'll let it interrupt any game.
Yea but the way the advertisements are displayed in the patent is much worse than anything I've seen on either 360 or PS3 up until this point. Imagine having a perfect race going and then the screen fades away to show you an add for Pepsi right in the middle of the final turn. That would infuriate me.
cr_blah_blah
Member
This patent is to literally stop your game, while you're playing, and show you an ad then let you resume. All of MS's dashboard ad bullshit doesn't interfere with the actual playing and you can at least skip straight to the game and avoid it completely. That's why people are fucking bitching holy shit cock balls cunt penis vagina treestump.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
This just in, I need to create an adblock for my PSN devices..
Paracelsus
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Escape Goat
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Silly.Mikey
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Im genuinely surprised that they haven't put tons of ads in loading screens yet.
I really love PC gaming, you guys.
This concept isn't that bad to me, but you'll quickly have publishers extending the load time just so you can make sure you see the best brand soda.
NullPointer
Member
I love it more each day.
CadetMahoney
Member
I'm leaning more towards this answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmR8fzQjuD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmR8fzQjuD8
PC gaming already went through this ingame advertising period. It failed. Now consoles get their turn.
But that really is a new step where it stops games mid stream. But after Wipeout on the ps3 I dont expect anything less from Sony.
SousedLouse
Member
You're not the only one, I feel that way sometimes as well. I couldn't tell you why marketing departments haven't figured it out yet.
Version 3.0
Member
Thanks to my good friend Bruce, no (in the US). He made a video proving that the load times were longer when a commercial played, it got picked up by videogame news sites, and Sony took the patched-in ads back out.
...at least at the time. Are they back in again? I haven't played Wipeout HD in a quite a while.
Seraphinianus
Banned
coke freestyle USB attachment!!!!!