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Ohhh they're doing an apple and inventing F5 + F8 save states
That's not what the article says. This is basically a save game for every-ish moment in the gameplay + a facility to launch the game at the scene you're watching a video of, which is massive amounts of data + progress sync, so if they figured out how to do that at scale, it's legit innovation.
So... they're inventing level codes you can re-enter to start from there.
I'm massively impressed by Sony, clearly revolutionary technology right there.
If you can encode your entire game progress into that level code, then it's just that, yep.
Yes, that's why NES games sometimes had 50 character codes.
Yes, NES games. Now try that with Baldur's Gate.