Do you like ads while playing a game? Then Sony has just the patent for you

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  1. C This silence is mine

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  2. kitty_mckechnie I want to hug you like big fuzzy Siberian bear!

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    It probably just means ads on the loading screens.
     
  4. Patman Bof

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    Fixed. They already do put ads in demo loading screens, this article is about a new kind of ads, happening right in the middle of a game, pausing it then rewinding it a little when you least expect it.


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  5. Scarred Nobody Where is the justice?

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    I agree.

    The article was probably written by someone who doesn't like seeing ads anywhere, period. I don't understand the whole complaint of ads anyway; it helps them make money to have it free for us.
     
  6. kitty_mckechnie I want to hug you like big fuzzy Siberian bear!

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    I don't mind ads being in-game but what I do mind is if they pause the game to show you an ad. I don't pay £30+ for that. Maybe if it reduced the price of games,aye maybe, but I can't see that happening. It'd be for their own gain.
     
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    Console gaming may not be dead yet, but
     
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    Sony are you trying to make us stop gaming in next generation? First that bullshiet of locking a game to a console, so no rent, no borrow, no re-selling games... and now we'll pay a rip-off, be stuck with it, and be stoped for ads?
    If any console doesnt do that the one who do it will be ****ed! And as they did a patent they'll be the only ones doing.. sure that my money is most likely not going to sony now... it is a shame I've always played sony's playstation.
     
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    There would be FAR too much negative backlash from absolutely everyone in the known universe for this to get far.
    There is quite literally no consumer in the world who would be for this.
     
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  12. Trigger hewwo uwu

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    maybe they're patenting it just so no one can actually use this method and keep it from ever happening.

    thank you sony guardians.
     
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  15. C This silence is mine

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    To be fair, Sony patents everything and anything, but only a minority of the patents actually get realised. This is a pretty interesting patent though.