Ever dreamed of having your gloriously average mug immortalized inside a AAA PlayStation title? Well, buckle up, because Sony is apparently done putting fictional characters in its games and has decided real human fans are the next DLC drop.
As reported by Eurogamer, PlayStation has unveiled a new initiative called Playerbase, which is essentially a recruitment program to find the studio's biggest fans and reward them with the most cursed prize imaginable: having their face scanned and dropped into an official PlayStation Studios game.
Gran Turismo 7 is the first victim - sorry, venue
The program is kicking off with Gran Turismo 7, which honestly makes perfect sense. Nothing says 'we love our fans' like letting a random person's face stare blankly from behind the wheel of a hypercar they could never afford in real life either.
This is PlayStation essentially offering the ultimate achievement unlock - not a platinum trophy, not a collector's edition, but your actual face, rendered in polygon form, living rent-free inside a first-party title. Your mom will finally understand what you do all day.
So how do you get in on this loot drop?
Sony is positioning this as a fan celebration program, targeting the most devoted members of the PlayStation faithful. The specifics of how fans qualify or get selected haven't been fully detailed yet, but the premise is clear: biggest fans get scanned, biggest fans get into games. It's basically a loyalty rewards program, except instead of points you get existential questions about digital identity.
Whether this rolls out beyond Gran Turismo 7 to other PlayStation Studios titles remains to be seen, but the implication that fans could eventually show up in something like God of War or Spider-Man is either the coolest thing ever or nightmare fuel - depending entirely on how photogenic you are.
Either way, PlayStation just invented a new endgame grind: becoming famous enough to get your face in a video game. Speedrun strats incoming.
