The Death Stranding game developed by Kojima Studios has a facility sharing mechanism that allows players to take advantage of facilities built by other live players without having to be online. Recently, Sony Interactive Entertainment registered a patent for this game feature in the United States and has passed the review.
The patent was filed in July 2019 and formally approved on December 7, 2021. The literal translation of its name is "the gradual construction of terrain radar and roads in the virtual environment of video games", and the patent outlines that this is a method of influencing the virtual world of video games. The approach involves a large number of virtual environments with a large number of asynchronous game flows, and a large number of players use the game communication medium to gradually build a road. The method includes confirming that a path has been used one or more times by a large number of players in a large number of asynchronous game flows. The method includes refining it based on the number of times the road is used. (There are a lot of very detailed specific descriptions later, which will not be translated here; if you are interested, you can click here to view the original text of the patent)
Although the patent also mentions Hideo Kojima (Kojima; Hideo), though not mentioning Death Stranding. We know that Death Stranding is not Sony's own first-party game, but it seems that Sony may have reached some kind of agreement with Kojima Studios, and currently Death Stranding: Director's Cut Edition is also a game exclusive to the PS platform, and the original Death Stranding can only be played on PC.