Sony has taken the next step and now trademarked the ‘Soho Engine’ to New Zealand and Switzerland. The company had earlier trademarked the term for Europe back in October 2020.
For now, only the term ‘Soho Engine’ has been trademarked, so there is no way to really know what direction this plan is going. It could be an all new engine being used in a game, or could just be related to an upcoming game.
The most believable and compelling theory is that ‘Soho Engine’ may be a work-in-progress title for Spider-Man 2, since SoHo is an actual neighborhood found in New York City. It could also be a new engine that the game is going to be built on.
The trademark could also be connected to the PSVR system for PS5. A while back, Sony had revealed the next-gen VR controllers. Aside from showing us how they looked, they didn’t provide much information on the technology itself.
The ‘Soho Engine’ may be a new platform to build next-gen VR games. As of now, Unity and Unreal Engine are the most popular engines for VR games, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility for Sony to want its own proprietary VR engine.
In other news for PlayStation terms and properties, Sony briefly put up a banner for a PlayStation Plus Video Pass on their Polish website. This was taken down immediately, leaving a lot of people rightfully confused.
A day later, PlayStation confirmed that they were working on a PlayStation Plus Video Pass and that it was currently under trial in Poland. This could explain why they initially wanted to eliminate the purchase of movies and TV shows from the PS Store.
According to the banner, the service gave users access to movies such as Bloodshot, Venom and Zombieland: Double Tap. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global services Vice President Nick Maguire confirmed this news.
“We are currently focusing only on the Polish market, on Polish players and what will be their reaction to the additional benefit under the PS Plus program. We want to see how players will benefit from such a service. What titles do they watch, what do they care about, how often do they use them.”
Nick Maguire, Vice President Global Services, Sony Interactive Entertainment
We’ll have to wait a while longer to understand what ‘Soho Engine’ really is, but here’s hoping this means the next Spider-Man title is coming soon!
About Sony
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. The company operates as one of the most comprehensive media companies on the planet and also holds the distinctions of being the largest video game console company and the second largest video game publisher in the world.
Its gaming and network services arm Sony Interactive Entertainment (formerly Sony Computer Entertainment) is best known for producing the popular line of PlayStation consoles.
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