The PlayStation App is getting a nice beta update which brings a lot of changes. Even if it is not yet available on all games, it is a very good promise for the future.
In an effort to enrich the player experience, Sony is currently testing a new feature, called Lore, within its official PlayStation mobile application. As we know, players appreciate new features and inevitably, publishers test a whole bunch of things to try to meet needs and requests. What can we learn from this brand new possibility?
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The PlayStation app is getting better
In fact, it's quite simple: this innovation proposes to transform the application into a sort of secondary screen, offering users direct access to a multitude of content related to the games they play on their PS5, such as entries newspaper, character profiles, deleted scenes, or even conceptual art. This helps avoid pop-ups in the middle of the screen during the game. But not only.
At the moment, this interactive experience is only available in beta and is limited to The Last of Us Part II Remastered. However, Sony plans to expand this feature to other titles in the future. As reported Push Square, during a test of this feature, after finding a note in the game and adding it to the virtual inventory, it instantly appeared in the application, accompanied by a screenshot of the game and the text of the note. Additionally, a Characters tab updates character profiles as they appear in scenes, which can also be reviewed through the app.
This extension of the gaming universe into the mobile space is intended to be an interesting novelty, although its usefulness remains to be fully demonstrated. It offers a new way to interact with the game, allowing you to follow the evolution of the story and characters, and to revisit key elements at any time. It's perfect for those who are afraid of getting lost a little, especially when the game is very complete. We can imagine how useful this could be on large RPGs.
Although this feature is still in testing and limited to a single game, it opens up exciting possibilities for the future of interaction between video games and mobile applications. Sony continues to explore new ways to improve the gaming experience of its users. We must admit that this still makes us want it, especially if it starts to multiply in games.
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