Sonys PlayStation Revolution: Smell Your Favorite Games in Real Life [Video]

At CES 2025, Sony showed the world an amazing concept bound to revolutionize how we game: the Future Immersive Entertainment Concept. It further scales up interactive entertainment with smelling in-game odors, better audio, haptic feedback, and even atmospheric effects. With this revolutionary innovation, Sony is making a bold move toward changing how we experience the worlds of our favorite games.

The Future Immersive Entertainment Concept was developed to immerse players into a multisensory experience that married the traditional visual and auditory components of gaming with the sense of smell. Sony wants to make gaming more emotionally deep and real with scents that match what happens in the game. One could imagine playing The Last of Us, then suddenly being hit with a pungent pine aroma as one enters a forested area, or that of smoke from some fire off in the distance-the kind of immersive world that would be envisioned in Sony’s future gaming.

In materializing this vision, …