Sony will scan gamers and put their faces in PS5 video games

The information round PlayStation hasn’t been nice recently, and Sony has simply the factor to repair that. Maybe.

On the PlayStation Blog, Sony introduced a brand new initiative referred to as The Playerbase. Through The Playerbase, followers of PlayStation video games can apply to have their faces scanned and their likenesses utilized in PS5 video games. The first sport to do that will probably be Gran Turismo 7, through which one fortunate fan who makes it by way of the appliance course of will seem as a time-limited character inside the sport.

This initiative will probably be out there to gamers in “select markets” in most components of the world, per PlayStation. There’s an application webpage you possibly can go to if you would like to place your face in GT7 or whichever future video games Sony desires to do that with. The software course of itself appears attention-grabbing, as you will need to “answer a few questions about your experiences on PlayStation,” log in to your PlayStation Network account, and bear a video interview earlier than making it into any video games. It looks like Sony desires to prioritize folks with a protracted historical past of enjoying PlayStation video games, so this is perhaps the primary time in historical past that having a excessive Trophy rely can turn out to be useful.

For PlayStation, this can be a light-weight and frivolous headline in a sea of unhealthy ones lately. Sony lately elevated the costs of PS5 consoles almost six years into the console’s lifespan as a result of financial pressures, for instance. A report additionally got here out indicating the PlayStation 6, which can even have its deliberate 2027 launch delayed, may not embrace a built-in disc drive in any respect.

But hey, perhaps The Playerbase will get folks enthusiastic about PlayStation once more.