What makes Sony truly strong when it comes to video games is its exclusive franchises. Many who don’t own a PlayStation — or even hate the brand badly — would like to play story-driven titles like The Last of Us , Horizon , or God of War . However, there are gamers within Sony’s own community who are dedicated to gutting the endings of said games left and right for the sheer fun of it. Can it be avoided in any way?
Is there a filter against stupidity? Yes, but only if you have a PS5
“There are two infinite things: the Universe and human stupidity. And of the Universe I am not sure.” Definitely, Einstein was referring to the bunch of idiots that every time an audiovisual product with a certain narrative quality comes out, they jump to social networks to launch spoilers for the fun of it. It happened every week with Game of Thrones and it also happened with the end of The Last of Us Part II , something that didn’t sit well with Sony.
The Japanese probably already expected that to happen. In 2018, Sony filed a patent to block spoilers on its consoles . This functionality first came to PlayStation 5, a few months after what happened with The Last of Us 2.
The feature is called ‘ Danger Spoilers ‘ and is designed in collaboration with the video game developers themselves. When you take a screenshot of a certain moment in a title, the game will check with a series of algorithms if the content of the screenshot contains any important elements of the plot. When that audiovisual content is sent to another contact, your console filter will check against the attached metadata whether or not what has been received contains spoilers. The filter can be customized in various ways.
Obviously, this system is only going to protect you from the messages you receive through the PlayStation community itself, so you will continue to be exposed on social networks such as Twitter, TikTok, Facebook or any video game forum you visit on the Internet. However, it is a very interesting function that we recommend that you activate on your console to heal yourself in health.
How to activate the PlayStation 5 spoiler filter
This functionality of PlayStation 5 has not had much impact, despite the fact that it is one of the basic settings that you should set on your console right out of the box .
If you want to activate it, you have to perform the following steps:
- From the main menu of your PlayStation 5, go to Settings > Games & Apps Settings .
- Enter the option ‘ Danger of spoilers ‘.
- Turn on the ‘ Protect yourself from game spoilers ‘ option.
- Once the previous step is done, you will not be able to see any content that is selected as a spoiler by the video game developers. However, you can make the filter a bit more permissive by selecting one more step in the settings. For example, the filter ‘ Everything you haven’t seen yet ‘ allows you to see screenshots of video games with elements that you have already played, and that will not be a spoiler for you.