What exactly does that company, what is an exchange? Some sort of a digital items 2nd hand marketplace where you can buy and sell stuff? Or does this company also produce some of stuff they sell? Is that "exchange" limited to sell and buy their cryptocurrency or do they have also a store to buy stuff with it?
An exchange is a place where you can pretty much sell or buy crypto/currencies/assets/NFT's. When we talk about Blockchain, it basically means either a Public ledger of any of these own assets or Privacy Preserving with Zero Knowledge Proofs. Basically, from my understanding these things will happen:
- Earn to Play
- NFT Market based on Skins will explode (the infrastructure for this already exists) however, with proprietary tech you can lose your "items/skins" since you need a peer to peer system which blockchain allows as a network. At some point these "things" will be tokenized and given fair market value on the blockchain and sold through smart contracts online with an "exchange/infrastructure" being the intermediary to gain fees. Think Steam with CS Skins. However, this means scarcity on very popular games with "Dubai Number Plates" or "65 of these cars ever made" ideology.
- Tokenization of your digital games/DLC as well that can have its own marketplace. "Oh hey, I was the 4th person to buy this game in the world" just to give a "proposed" value example. Think Forza Horizon Auctions.
- I expect a PlayStation Home type of Metaverse again where all these systems work seemlessly with a community consensus or DAO.
Actually I can see alot of benefits, moreso than the cons. But gamers are very against crypto/NFT's (for obvious reasons), not understanding that the tech of Blockchain gives you more personal power and freedom if used the right way. However, I cannot endorse NFT's unless its in a Metaverse environment. Its stupid af otherwise.
They certainly might, but again, this is another division. That said I wouldn’t be surprised.
Looks how they merged that Movie bs within PS Premium. It'll come in the next 3-5 years.