A recent patent filed by the company Sony reports a functionality to automatically play in the players’ place and pass certain moments that are too difficult or boring.
Your Playstation console could well take over your role as a gamer in the years to come. According to the media GameRant, the giant Sony has filed a patent allowing the Playstation 5 to play for you during certain passages of your video game.
This crazy idea does not yet have an official name internally, but would be similar to an “auto-play” mode. The functionality would be based in particular on the artificial intelligence of the console and the servers of the manufacturer Sony to learn and copy the appropriate gameplay to go through certain passages of a video game. Such a function would thus allow players to automatically skip a moment or boss that is too difficult for them, but also to avoid passages that are too boring or redundant by playing in their place.
How does this “auto-play” mode work in practice? Once enabled, this option could analyze the exact part the player is in their game. They could then deduce the best way to skip that segment and take control of the controller to play for you. Using a predictive artificial intelligence algorithm, the “auto-play” option would perform the best moves and actions to skip the sequence the player wishes to skip.
This “auto-play” mode could also be used in RPGs in order to chain fights and gain experience and items without needing to play the video game in question.
At a time when many players are complaining about the difficulty of certain titles like Dark Souls or Elden Ring, such an option could allow them to understand certain video games more easily.
However, Sony has not yet officially communicated about this new functionality. It is not uncommon for a manufacturer to file patents for ideas that are ultimately not used. The manufacturer must certainly still be testing this function internally and whether it would really be useful for players. It is also unknown whether such an idea could see the light of day on current PS5 models or for a hypothetical Playstation 5 Pro or future Playstation 6.