Sony’s issuing warnings that the PlayStation Network will go down for about 11 hours today for maintenance, starting at 8AM Pacific / 11AM Eastern (which has already occurred at the time of this writing). The silver lining is that this maintenance will add cloud storage to the service for PlayStation Plus subscribers.
Sony is offering 150 megabytes of remote storage for all Plus subscribers, meaning you choice few can upload your save files to the internet and access them from other PlayStation 3s. Sony notes that “most” save games support this, and going forward, all future games will. This is especially handy if you, say, happen to be a journalist who has to transfer saves back and forth from the office to the home.
Because there’s so many people out there that have to do that.
Perhaps the coolest feature is that future games may have the option to save directly to the cloud, meaning the save will never be on your local hard drive, and will always be available. Well, provided the PlayStation Network isn’t down, but that never hap… pens…
Of course, the new functionality will come in an evening-destroying PlayStation update, so don’t plan on uploading saves right from the get go.
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