Lorne Lanning, the creator behind the much-loved Oddworld franchise, has seemingly confirmed that Sony has some major PS5 social plans bubbling away under the surface.
PS5 Social Plans Hinted At By Oddworld Creator
Speaking during an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK, Lanning made it clear he couldn’t into detail on the subject, but what he was able to say sounds exciting enough. In fact, it sounds like Sony may be giving YouTube a run for its money, with players able to lean on each other to help them through a game rather than consulting an online playthrough.
…the social stuff that’s been built into the PS5 — I’m still not sure about how much I can really talk about […] I want to be careful, but they’re doing a lot more things that are like, enabling you to sort of open your experience a little wider to your […] human network of people that you’re connected with.
[There are] ways that it’s enabling, sort of helping [with] problems that you might be having in the game, more intelligent monitoring of people having difficulty and — I wouldn’t say AI level, but it’s kind of smart things that are going on. Like, ‘if you take advantage of this new feature, you’ll be able to help your players where they normally get stuck in this way.’
And so there are some really clever things going on there that involve this sort of extension into other networks, other people, other points of feedback and giving people information on how to play the game better, how other people might play or solve these problems.
[Source – OPM UK 179 via CulturedVultures]