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Saving Future Games, Made Easier

News | March 4, 2011 6:13 pm

Have you ever went to a friends house and not been able to put your profile info on his system without extensive waiting, or requiring a flash drive? According to multiple sources, we will soon be able to move our game info much easier. With the release of Windows 7 Cloud servers, Sony wants to show the world the PS3 is more like a computer than ever, by allowing gamers to save their memory onto the Cloud Server, and reacquire it on another's system. All you gotta do is be a Playstation Plus member. Microsoft claims to have the same idea in mind, but so far, not much is being said. the Consumerist says this:

Quote by Consumerist.com:

Sony has struggled to develop good reasons for players to subscribe to its premium PlayStation Plus service, but may have an ace up its sleeve to make Plus worthwhile.

Kotaku reports Sony will allow Plus subscribers to save game data on cloud servers, meaning gamers won't have to use hard drive space and will be able to pull up the data on different consoles. The feature should come with the PS3's next firmware update.

This is good news not only for Plus subscribers, but for Xbox 360 owners, since Microsoft has a penchant for matching its rival's innovations.

If you game on a PS3, would cloud saving turn you into a Plus subscriber?

well, good or bad idea? all i can see being a problem in the future is the possibility of the Cloud servers going down, then what are you going to do? why not just stick with a good ol' flash drive?

(Source: http://consumerist.com/2011/02/ps3-will-allow-players-to-save-data-on-cloud-servers.html, http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=654890, http://kotaku.com/#!5746393)

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 7:15 pm | #2

I have 2 360's. I wish I could have my profile on both, instead of having to put my profile on a flash stick and going back and forth between consoles.

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03/04/11 8:00 pm | #3

and this has what to do with xbox?

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03/04/11 8:04 pm | #4

Quote by punchuintheeye:

and this has what to do with xbox?

Windows is made by Microsoft who also makes the xbox.....and it says Microsoft claims to have the same idea in mind......so yes, it does have to do with the xbox.

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12/31/69 7:00 pm | #5

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 8:19 pm | #6

i'm not jumping on board quite yet. not really digging it yet. and thank you Minioger, for pointing out the sentences for our members who cannot read the for-mentioned paragraph. it helps. it really does :laugh:

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 8:27 pm | #7

I am behind this as long as it remains optional. Barring some huge catastrophic event, though, cloud servers don't just go down like a traditional server bank, that's part of the point of it being a "cloud". There are redundant systems in play covering each others' bung holes so, barring the hand of a god or a better corporate idea, the cloud will always be there.

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 9:42 pm | #8

that's what she said.

I think it should save to your harddrive and the servers so u always has a backup

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03/04/11 10:19 pm | #10

altho the idea seems good, them trying to actually go along w/ and do the idea seems iffy

sony cant even keep their fuckin online servers from getting hacked...just imagine someone hacking the cloud server and getting EVERYONES profiles n shit. i mean, honestly. they need to fix their damned online server security before they do doing something like this

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 11:14 pm | #11

I don't see why flash drives are considered some huge pain in the ass. they're just a few seconds of inconvenience.

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/04/11 11:41 pm | #12

Meh, they just need to reduce the 8 hour wait time when you recover your profile onto another system, could care less about the cloud unless it does something useful.

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03/05/11 4:41 am | #14

Actually they have improved something with the Profile Recovery because the last two times I had to do it, it was much faster than before. The difference was 2 hours versus the original seven-to-eight like you said.

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Re: Saving Future Games, Made Easier

03/05/11 10:47 am | #15

If MS did this, they would definitely sell more hardware. I would have an Xbox in at least 3 different locations if it was turn on any box and get your profile loaded. Schlepping 380+ game saves and profile info from machine to machine gets to be a drag. It's not really the saving, it's the loading on the other end and then reversing the process when you are done.

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