Imagine your PS3 hard drive dies. Your saves are online, or your PS3 is in for repairs. You can still use a buddies PS3 and login to an account and play from your last save. Even upgrading to a new console (of the sony variety) and still having your saves for backwards compatible games. That sort of service gives incentive to buy future products.
Of course there are problems. What if you don't connect your console to the internet? What if the servers hosting your saves go down? Would the servers act as a backup for your saves on your hard drive? (I think that would be a good idea)
I like it sirs.
que privacy and/or anti-"cloud"/. comments NOW!</p></quote>
Not really a privacy/anti-"cloud" comment, but unless the game is multiplayer (i.e. Street Fighter), I usually play with the PS3 disconnected from PSN. So, beside my saves being "somewhere" I cannot control, cannot backup, etc, I'm also forced to have always-on internet? How did that go with Ubi?
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The more likely result: ... Blackops is still far more popular than MW3</p><p>I don't think we are ready for Pay to play FPS though.</p></quote>
Actually, right now, MW2 has much more players in steam than Black Ops. Steamwise, that is.
Imagine your PS3 hard drive dies. Your saves are online, or your PS3 is in for repairs. You can still use a buddies PS3 and login to an account and play from your last save. Even upgrading to a new console (of the sony variety) and still having your saves for backwards compatible games. That sort of service gives incentive to buy future products.
Of course there are problems. What if you don't connect your console to the internet? What if the servers hosting your saves go down? Would the servers act as a backup for your saves on your hard drive? (I think that would be a good idea)
I like it sirs.
que privacy and/or anti-"cloud" /. comments NOW!</p></quote>
Not really a privacy/anti-"cloud" comment, but unless the game is multiplayer (i.e. Street Fighter), I usually play with the PS3 disconnected from PSN.
So, beside my saves being "somewhere" I cannot control, cannot backup, etc, I'm also forced to have always-on internet?
How did that go with Ubi?
If they are, where did my €20 just went?