If NFT fanatics were asking ‘XBox or PlayStation,’ they might have a reason to be partial after this week. A new patent from Sony’s console gaming division has been generating buzz around potential blockchain-based games for the console in the future.
Let’s take a look at the details available thus far surrounding the patent, and how it could impact the future of gaming.
PlayStation’s Pursuit
Sony Interactive has finally seen publication of a U.S. patent titled “Tracking Unique In-Game Digital Assets Using Tokens on a Distributed Ledger,” which was submitted with an application date of July 2021. The abstract descriptor of the patent outlines the desire to have a mechanism that “tracking digital assets associated with video games,” which includes the likes of “in-game items or characters.”
Don’t hold your hopes up too high on a patent filing alone, however. Last year, we speculated that an ‘e-sports betting platform’ patent filing from Sony that directly ref
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