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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yokohama, JP;
Syunsuke Bamba, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A game apparatus is provided which promotes use of a function suitable for a user in response to a usage situation of a function provided in the game apparatus. The game apparatus includes a function usage situation management table for managing a usage situation of a function provided in the game apparatus by a user, a condition decision unit for deciding, in response to the usage situation of the function by the user, whether or not each of a plurality of messages regarding the function stored in an associated relationship with given instructions by the user is to be displayed in response to the corresponding given instruction, and a message display controlling unit for displaying one of the plurality of messages which is decided so as to be displayed in response to the given instruction by the user.