Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a new patent that indicates the PS5 may include an application for news and content feeds, similar to what Google and Facebook have employed.
PS5 News & Contented Feed Hinted At In Sony Patent
According to the patent, the application is able to pull gaming news from the web based on the user’s search history and keywords. It also implies that the feature will be available on a PlayStation console, which will surely mean PS5 at this point in time.
Read up on the patent descriptions below:
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for providing targeted gaming news and content feeds. Information about an interaction by a user with an interactive content title and a plurality of interactive content titles may be stored in memory,” patent reveals.
Such information may be analyzed to identify one or more keywords that characterize the user interaction with the interactive content title. Media stored in a database may be filtered based on the identified keywords and displayed within a targeted media feed on a user device of the user.
The displayed targeted media may be updated based on new information regarding user interaction with the interactive content title.
The present invention may be implemented in an application that may be operable by a variety of end-user devices. For example, an end-user device may be a personal computer, a home entertainment system (e.g., Sony PlayStation2® or Sony PlayStation3® or Sony PlayStation4®), a portable gaming device (e.g., Sony PSP® or Sony Vita®), or a home entertainment system of a different albeit inferior manufacturer.
The PS5 will be released in holiday 2020.
Source: TheGamePost