Saturday, January 29, 2011

Next PS3 update rumored to add 'Online Saving' for PlayStation Plus users

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Say it with us, finally a PS3 firmware update that actually does
something useful! We've grown so accustomed to Sony refreshing the
software on its console just to spite jailbreakers that we almost
started to believe that's all the word "update" entailed. But, here
comes Kotaku with word that v3.6 of the PS3's firmware will come with
a neat little addition: saving games to the cloud. This seems a very
logical step toward delivering Sony's overall goal of giving users a
holistic, integrated experience. Indeed, during the NGP presentation,
guest speaker Hideo Kojima specifically referred to saving your PS3
game on the console and resuming it on the Next Generation Portable.
"Online Saving," as Sony's reputed to be calling it, would be the
conduit through which that can be realized, though it doesn't appear
like it'll come for free. Kotaku's sources indicate it'll be part of
the PlayStation Plus subscription, at least initially. Still, we like
cloud storage, and if it means never having to see another hard drive
again, we're all for it.

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