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Sony Patents a Smarter Download Mechanism That Will Allow You to Play Games in Chunks As They Download

RoadHazard

Gold Member
Seems like a thing that would only be relevant for online/GAAS stuff. Like, you'd download each level separately and you can play the ones already downloaded.
 

squidilix

Member
A patent is just a "no one we will copy our mechanism or idea".

We live in world of industry, patent gameplay mechanism or idea and this is more sad.
 
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Ar¢tos

Member
I feel like they're just trying to patent shit and see if they can get away with it.
Sony has a lot of patents for many things that already exist.
They aren't patenting end results, they patent different ways to get there.
Segmented downloads have existed for ages, this is just a patent for another behind-the-scene way of doing them.
 
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