Wow that's depressing. I guess the main solace is that if Sony patents this then we're unlikely to see this practice on other systems.

I'm just gonna end up being an old man in my basement, staying warm with the radiant glow from my CRT monitor while playing SNES, Genesis and NES games.

And the next patent will be about a controller, not actually being plugged into the console, but merely giving gamers the illusion of affecting the gameplay...

Every game is an idle game now... ?

Sure, why not.

Isn’t this already done with Mario game(s)? I think it was Super Mario Deluxe, where if you die enough times, Luigi shows up and will be doing the entire level for you including the ‘boss’ fight.

Vibe gaming

This feels like it's going to incentivise developers to either make bad puzzles, or bad hint systems. Why bother with a good one if the platform has a "complete this for me" feature? It is basically impossible for players to get stuck or struggle, when they're either shown the solution, or the game completes it for them.

Just make a fuckin movie!

I'm not sure how I feel about games that are easy enough that AI can play them, and that people might need help with them.

Remember when the way to beat hard bosses was to either git gud or input a built in cheat code? Pepperidge Farms remembers

MMO veterans might be very interested in this kind of totally never seen before type of play automation

Oh boy, the darksouls community is doing to be very funny to read

I wanted robots to do my chores but instead they are taking my job and my hobbies! Hopefully they become addicted to gaming and don't to take my job anymore.

There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, 'this is impossible' but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

Bare in mind as well that 'AI' has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of 'AI' simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.

Hey Alexa, have fun, so I don't have to!!

...fuck off.

Didn't Nintendo do this in the New Super Mario Bros.? If you died enough times, it asked you if you wanted Luigi (or some other character?) to show you how to do the course.

this just in the next generation of video games will play themselves. Due to rising costs though play time for most run-throughs will top out at about 90 minutes.

Look, that ledge has yellow paint. I bet I can climb it.

Sometimes I like to play a game on max difficulty, sometimes I choose easy chill mode so I'm all for games having a wide difficulty scale of options.

This just seems stupid, and more like they can't be arsed to balance a bunch of difficulties so just slap some AI slop in there and call it done.

Nintendo has been doing this since the Wii era.

New Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Mario Maker 2…

Technically all the Rhythm Heaven games also have this feature.

I wonder if this is a step toward them self-purchasing game micro transactions, too. ..

So a bot? Those have been in gaming for fucking ever.

This patent is so dumb.

What they gonna watch a movie for me too? Fucka my wife for me? Eat a steak for me? I can see this for games for kids like with that Mario example, but for everyone else seems like it would be a nuisance. At least have it be opt in.

What is even the point then?

Just watch a movie or read a book.

Shit, listen to an audiobook if you're that lazy!

God I remember doing a puzzle in Jedi fallen order and about half way through it's like "oh maybe you should do this" and pointed me to the solution... Like if I'm playing on the hardest difficulty why are you throwing hints that ruin the whole thing?