Gaming Giant Sony Files Patent to Enable NFT Transferability Across Games and Consoles

cryptonews.com:

Entertainment and gaming giant Sonyhas filed for a patent to make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) transferable and usable between various games, devices, and consoles.

The patent filed last week states:

"[T]hat the digital asset may be used, via the NFT, across plural different computer simulations and/or across plural different computer simulation platforms. Ownership of the NFT may also be subsequently transferred to other end-user entities for their own use across different simulations and/or platforms."

In simple terms, this means that players would be able to transfer their in-game assets between various video game platforms and devices, including computers, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and VR/AR headsets, or even "cross-generationally, meaning from one PlayStation generation to the next.

The patent suggested that the assets could be transferable between different gaming ecosystems altogether, saying:

"The standardized format may be readable to insert the digital asset in different computer simulations that may include different video games of different titles [and/or] may be readable via different video game platforms such as, for example, PlayStation and Xbox."

Outside the Sony ecosystem, the digital assets could potentially be used within "at least one computer simulation," including "a cloud-based video game." 

Computer simulations may include different annual versions of a particular video game title, different video games of different game genres, and/or different execution instances of the same video game, it added.

The assets could include in-game skins, avatars, artwork, weapons, and "video game skills," among other items.  

The patent further discusses functions of recognizing specific attempts of fraud, when users