A new patent discovered by The Game Post would seem to point towards certain features in the PlayStation 5 user interface.
Chiefly, the patent would seem to directly reference how the PlayStation 5 would use machine learning to fashion a ‘game execution engine’ which not only produce bespoke in-game hints for the player to follow, but also metrics too such as how many shots they’ve fired, how long they’ve spent in a particular portion of a game and so on.
You can catch the text from the patent below:
The game logic within the game execution engine may engage machine learning logic to evaluate the prior game play of the user to determine the user’s game behavior. Based on the evaluation, it may be determined that the user has been repeatedly attempting to overcome a challenge within a particular portion of the game and has been unsuccessful or has not achieved a completion metric specified for the particular portion every time. Based on such machine learning, the game execution engine may identify hints for the current game play.
The hints may be provided from the game inputs specified in the game logic of the game to help the user to improve his/her game play of the particular portion of the game. In one embodiment, the game execution engine may use the information obtained about the prior game play from the machine learning logic and use collaborative filtering to identify game plays of one or more other users that played the game and successfully completed or achieved completion metric or sequence of events, actions, levels, moves or combinations thereof, for the portion of the game that the current user is unsuccessfully attempting.
The game execution engine 310.2 may then select game play of a particular one of the other users and extract a video clip for the portion of the game and present the extracted video clip to the user to visually show the user how the other user/player was able to successfully provide completion metrics for the portion of the game.
Equally interesting is how we get a glimpse of what the PlayStation 5 UI will look like too – as according to the patent image below, the PS5 would seem to adopt the same scrolling tiled appearance that the PlayStation 4 currently does. So those looking for a massive visual departure from the current generation UI might be a tad disappointed.
Source: The Game Post