To The Clouds

Sony has officially released v3.60 of the PS3 firmware and the PlayStation Plus subscription available via PlayStation Network just became a service worth owning! Sony's make.believe cloud is now allowing subscribers to stash up to 150MB of PS3 game progress data. Though the amount doesn't seem that appealing but then again, save files usually don't take up that much space either. Basically with this new feature, players will be able to continue with their game progress on different PS3 consoles simply by logging into their personal accounts. (If this feature had been activated sooner, I wouldn't have had to play Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood twice just to snuff out my curiosity for the game-story endings! But with that said, the latter was a pretty decent game worthy of your time and consumption.)

This notion of "cloud" is very intriguing and potentially revolutionary. We can already cloud our music, videos, and now game data, so what if every sector of our daily routines can be processed as such? What if we could cloud our mobile phone credits, from one provider to the next? Would privacy and confidentiality be at risk in return? Would our lives be made easier?

Simple is best!