PlayStation to Start Putting Fans into PS5 Games with New Playerbase Program

They already scanned my body to use in GoW 2018, it was for Mimir if anyone is asking.

If anyone here wins the opportunity, please show up to the studio wearing this. I'm begging you.

Now, if they could also record my voice and use AI to generate speech and movement then Sony would never need to hire a voice actor or motion capture ever again, as their fanbase is basically endless. 😀

@stu123 Its not zero interest. You clicked on the article. Not being a dick, just saying

What a dystopian s*** to drop on a random Tuesday…

Of course, sports games over the years have allowed you to scan your likeness into the likes of NBA 2K and WWE 2K for years now through smartphone apps

You could use the eyetoy on Tony Hawk Underground 2 on ps2 to do this or you could email an image to an address and then download it within the game on the previous game

Side note: Tony Hawk was very progressive with weird stuff on ps2, THPS3 had usb modem support because the ps2 network adapter didn’t exist yet (at least outside Japan)

I tried this once with NBA and the result would make Cthulhu proud. I think I'll pass this time. 😂 🦑🦑🦑

I'd prefer stuff like this didn't happened. It's bad enough seeing 'influencers and Youtubers' in games already

I think it was one of the Rainbow 6 Vegas games that let you scan your face with the EyeToy back on PS3. End result was very weird and my character ended up looking like some nightmare version of David Schwimmer.

This feels like an April Fool's joke that was announced too late

Some pretty funny responses here

Can I use this initiative to put myself as Peter Parker in Spiderman 2? I look more like Peter than the one that was cast for the role.

Would be fun of it was me. Or we all could get a realistic Mii like character to use in games.

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They can quite literally do anything they want with your likeness and the data that you submit. Super dubious and alarming if you ask me.

You know, I would like that. Maybe in a Assassin's Creed, a The Last of Us, Spider-Man game...Like a Dragon for a foreigner side--story haha

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I guess will try later

Edit..could be because I am a dog?

No thanks! I’m sure the younger generations that love taking selfies and adding filters will love this feature.

As others have pointed out, we seem to have taken a step backwards, given that I was able to scan my face onto my character in Rainbow Six on the 360.

The cameras on our phones now, many of which have lidar, are science-fiction technology compared to what I had back in the 360 days.

Why the hell doesn’t the PlayStation app allow us to scan ourselves and integrate with character designers in Games?

It is really quite pathetic that such ideas were never built on, and that the industry is stagnating and collapsing under the weight of sequel-itis where games barely iterate, and innovation is dead.

@Oram77 i was satan in Dante's Inferno, if you know what i mean. They scanned every single detail about me.
if you know, you know

$ony is copying your identity for skynet. privacy is dead

This is the most 2002 thing ever.

I need this just as much as I need extra nose hair.

Anyone who has supported them since the 90s would be deemed too old for this which is sad.

The only people this will reach are the streamers and content creators.

I'd rather not

@Oram77 They used mine for Ethan Winters in RE7.

Sooo... Sony will be able to sell the private information of the people to nsa and pentagon ha?

@AdamNovice Generic white male with buzz cut?

@Oram77 Your performance as his body stuck in the tree was flawless. Props to you good sir.

@Deadlyblack Well they did say I had a body of a god...

This gives off the PS3 Michael ad vibes.

Or that room Nintendo put in Zelda Link to the Past.

So kind of cool. Not my thing but still kind of cool. Good luck to those who enter and for which regions.

Well time for me to go to the GT7 wiki in a few months and write up on this thing for GT7 related things. Also if they do the offline update they will be immortalised into the game, so that's cool.

I don't play most mainstream games, or most PlayStation known games so for me PS4/5 era, wouldn't even be counted at all. Ever since 2017.

Sure I'd mention Gravity Rush or Knack or something but they'd totally write me off, I'd be an anomaly. We can't talk about those niche games or key scenes from them.

Unless they are sick and tired of hearing about the key games associated with the brand but I doubt it. Whatever aligns with people works more and that's totally fine, and whatever stand out scenes per player's experience I guess.

That aside I'd never win as I'd never be able to say positive things about the company at this moment (that and I don't win things and that's fine I don't care to, I'm surprised I even won a piece of cardboard with names on it for a particular event I went to)

I play/buy too many niche games on the eshops instead of their 1st party games anymore, PS3 or early PS4 was the last of the IPs/entries I care about with PlayStation, and GT7 is my least favourite game in the series I could easily tear apart how much I hate it's progression, so they wouldn't want to hear my opinion right now of the company at all. XD

I can easily tear apart my disappointment for Ratchet Rift Apart too.

I'd say yeah I played Space Marine 2 on PS5....... and then end it there. XD I'd say more but if I wanted to I would leave it as that to show how much I really have not liked PS5.

I enjoy PSVR2 though, I don't Portal, I'd want them to offer a dual screen update and that won't happen at all.

I could try hide it but I don't suck up to companies, try to win things or would be able to keep a straight face. I don't have a chance at all and that's ok.

They probably won't like it either if they remember my comment to them years ago with my opinions after I was sort of new to buying digital games in the late PS4 era and my opinions of what things then. I remember it well enough. I wasn't harsh but it was sort of my thoughts at the time of what games were being allowed or not.

While Nintendo has offered me surveys for games I play enough.

Sony hasn't asked me ever since about anything which is sad but not surprising either.

Only in the last year or so did they start giving me advertising yet had a PS4 account for years now (my PS3 one was offline/local so I wouldn't have gotten anything for it).

Companies nowadays will try anything except making good games.

@CielloArc There are still plenty of great games coming out—it’s just that stuff like this gets more headlines because it’s weird and new. The core gaming experience is still strong, especially across active communities and platforms like https://goranked.gg/en-us/dota2/accounts