| KylieDog said: Am I the only one who doesn't give a crap about all these rumours and would rather stay silent until the hard facts are made public? |
No, but the few that are saying so are scarce between all the people making from this a seperate core for OS-functions. 
And although this is a real patent, there are
a) different product-lines than gaming in the portfolio of Sony
and b) most firms patent everything what an employee thought about whilke he was on the loo. Really, an idea might bring a prototype, but no real product, might not even get to prototype-stage or is thought of as too problematic to realize at the moment. But a petent is filed anyways, because patents are directly worth money. If you follow tech-industry: many firms that got bankrupt sold their assets. Only thing that always gets money are the patents. They are sold en bloc, in the thousands. The more patents you have, the better.
