Microsoft owns patent on in-game soundtracks, says site

April 1st, 2008 @ 05:41

According to this, Microsoft filed a patent in 2006 to “own” in-game soundtrack functionality. According to that report, the patent covers:

• receiving a request to launch a game in a gaming system;
• determining whether the game has a user-associated soundtrack;
• if the game has a user-associated soundtrack:
• launching the game; and
• playing the user-associated soundtrack;

• if the game does not have a user-associated soundtrack:
• allowing a user of the gaming system to select a soundtrack to play while the game is executed; and
• playing a default soundtrack if the user of the gaming system does not select a soundtrack.

That article concludes that Sony hasn’t been allowing custom soundtracks because of the above. Apart from in a few games. Which are magically exempt from the patent. Remember all that stuff about Nintendo owning a patent on rumble technology? No? That’s because that didn’t make any difference either.

Posted in: Microsoft, Music, Trade, Xbox 360
Tags: in-game countrack patent

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