You Can Soon Save Your PS3 Games In Thin Air

Kotaku has learned that earlier today, Sony informed developers of a new feature for the PlayStation 3: the ability to save games in the "cloud".

Cloud storage means that, rather than just keeping your save game data on your PlayStation 3's hard drive, users will be given the option to upload their saves remotely to a server. The advantage of this is that not only does it save the user space on their hard drive, but since it's tied to a PlayStation Network account, it can be pulled down to different consoles whenever and wherever the user desires.

First rumoured all the way back in 2009, there is of course a catch: it'll only be made available to PlayStation Plus subscribers, not the great unwashed. Actually, there are two catches: Sony bundled the announcement with the clause that, because saving games to the cloud "will allow save data with the copy prohibited attribute to be copied into the online storage", developers are able to opt out and bar their games from using it should there be a concern.

Sony will call the process "Online Saving", and it'll be made available as part of the PS3's upcoming 3.60 firmware update. We've contacted the company for further information, and will update if we hear back.

http://kotaku.com/5746393/save-your-ps3-games-in-thin-air

As someone with an original 60GB model that is constantly worried about hardware failures, this is a pretty big deal. 

I would wait for confirmation BUT if true that's pretty epic :D

My reporting is on the same level as Kotakus, for what it's worth.

Not true, I take you word above theirs :P

well that would be a very good reason for me to get plus. 

Ok, I haven't yet gotten it, but Playstation Plus seemed like a pretty superb deal before when it offered 100's of dollars of content for like $50 a year.  Now they keep adding new features that are only good for this, and it keeps sounding sweeter and sweeter.

This feature would be insanely useful for me since I have two PS3's in my house.

I will be getting PSN if this is confirmed to be true.

Download your save data on your NGP and continue playing on the go...now thats sweet.

I would actually consider getting PSN plus if this feature was added. This is a good feature to have.

same here.