Sony wants you to stay interested in single-player games and has a solution on PlayStation 5

One of the most interesting system features of the next generation console Playstation 5 are the so-called “Activity“- special cards in a special section, allowing you to quickly move to different areas and tasks in the games, as well as clearly explaining how long it will take to complete.

As it turned out, creation “Activities“driven by desire Sony to provide the audience with the most convenient way to play games – they wanted to allow gamers to focus their attention only on the content they were interested in… Information about this was shared by the edition VICE, in whose hands the confidential documents of the Japanese company, which were distributed among the developers last year, fell into his hands.

The material says that at the stage of creation Playstation 5 the platform holder conducted a study to find out the real preferences of gamers against the background of predictions about the death of single games and the dominant position of multiplayer entertainment. As a result of analytics Sony came to the following conclusion: the console audience is very interested in single projects, but many find it difficult to find time to get acquainted with big adventures for a number of reasons.

Some of the respondents complained about the impossibility to determine in advance the optimal amount of time for one game session (people cannot afford to “hang” in front of the TV for too long, since there is work and other things to do), while others noted that after a long break, due to employment, they often did not return to the single games they had begun (details are blurred, you need to delve into everything again, and this also takes time), so they are in no hurry to get acquainted with new ones, fearing that they will have to be abandoned. Another part of the audience worries about the complexity of some projects, and they don’t really want to look for help in the vastness of the network (if you start browsing popular sites, you can easily stumble upon spoilers and ruin everything for yourself).

It is on the basis of the data obtained that the specialists Sony and came up with the idea of ​​creating “Activities“, immediately solving a number of the problems listed above. For example, cards in the interface PS5 can allow you to immediately plunge headlong into the passage of a specific level, task or world, while informing the player in advance about how long it will take to complete the session. Well, if you run into difficulties, the new console is ready to offer to use a set of pre-prepared tips.

In the documentation Sony it also provides examples of very popular singles, which suggests the segment isn’t dying. But it needs additional debugging.

Russian premiere Playstation 5 took place November 19

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