Video taking off 7.4x its usual first day

DJ Slope revisits Sony's shout-to-skip advertising patent

His gaming-patent essay also examines a Kinect proposal that would count the people watching a movie on your couch.

Channel:

Slope's Game Room Story of October 19, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 42,849 views a day, 7.4 times a normal first day on this channel (5,820).

5 Secret Patents That ALMOST Destroyed Gaming Forever

Things we can learn from the video

Press to jump

0:10DJ Slope explains how Namco patented minigames played during loading screens.
2:08Sony's proposals include console-locked game discs and interactive advertisements requiring players to participate.
6:02A Microsoft proposal uses Kinect to count movie viewers and charge for exceeding a license's permitted audience.
8:59Activision's matchmaking proposal pairs players with paid-gear users to encourage microtransaction purchases.
12:18The final section examines Nintendo's patent on Eternal Darkness's sanity effects, which expired in 2021.

Inviting friends over for a movie could have meant paying extra, under a Microsoft patent proposal examined in Slope's Game Room's new essay. DJ Slope describes a Kinect system that would count viewers in the living room and demand a larger group license before letting the movie continue.

That is just one of the proposed interruptions in "5 Secret Patents That ALMOST Destroyed Gaming Forever," which drew roughly 29,000 views in twelve hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience.

The Sony section supplies the strangest image: a patent diagram depicting a player standing up and shouting a fast-food brand's name to advance an advertisement. Elsewhere, the host examines a proposed system for tying game discs to individual consoles. These are patent designs, rather than a tour of features that all reached players' homes.

There is an especially pointed contrast with archival footage of Shuhei Yoshida demonstrating how to share a PS4 game: simply handing it to Adam Boyes. The ease of that exchange sits beside DJ Slope's account of technology designed to prevent it.

The essay moves from restrictions on players to restrictions on developers, including Namco's loading-screen minigames and Nintendo's patent on the fourth-wall-breaking sanity effects in Eternal Darkness. It also examines Activision's proposal to use multiplayer matchmaking to encourage purchases of paid gear.

Meanwhile, viewers are reporting an interruption the patent drawings didn't need to invent. Several say an actual advertisement cut in just as DJ Slope was setting up his example of an intrusive ad. The timing has become a small running joke beneath the video.

Published on Trari

Where next?

Also in Gaming news, reviews and commentaryVideo taking off 25x its usual first daySwitch 2 jailbreak claim brings Codex into console hackingGameLinked's roundup pairs an AI-assisted exploit report with BioWare closure news and a costly Xbox rumor.Channel: GameLinked · Story of October 24, 2026

A different discovery todayVideo people are talking about 11x its usual commentsZelenskyy tells Steven Bartlett why he needed "ammunition, not a ride"In a nearly two-hour conversation, Ukraine's president moves from sleepless nights and grieving parents to Bucha, Paddington Bear and the morning the invasion …Channel: The Diary Of A CEO · Story of October 24, 2026

What viewers say

Ironically, DJ Slopes had just got to the bit where you were "deeply immersed in The Last Of Us when suddenly -" when sudddenly YouTube cut to an advertisement. Couldn't have been better timed. Or worse, if you think about it.
@zh84See it on YouTube
Did anyone else read this as Secret Parents That Almost Destroyed Gaming? I was like wow what did mom and dad do
@plattyppusSee it on YouTube
I actually got an ad right when you said "And suddenly-" during the part about yelling to skip a McDonald's ad lol.
@Kamifox1See it on YouTube

3 more comments

My favorite, "play this game while playing another game" was playing R-Type in between periods in Blades of Steel on the NES.
@FoxeyeValkyrieSee it on YouTube
4:58 I thought that was just a meme, not an actual patent drawing!
@rizokahnSee it on YouTube
Wow, went from not hearing about Eternal Darkness for a long time to now seeing 2 videos for it today
@gligarguy4010See it on YouTube

Public comments from the video's page on YouTube

Or follow us on Telegram

The facts

Channel: Slope's Game Room
Subscribers: 214,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 435,999
Channel views, pace per day: 166,533 (on a normal day: 30,814)
Video published: October 18, 2026
Video views so far: 29,266 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 42,849

The numbers

The essay has already passed the channel's usual first-day views. Across Slope's Game Room, daily views are also more than five times their usual level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,820

this video

42,849

subscribers

214,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

47,326,408

views per day

166,533