Sony Goes Cloud Surfing With New Trademark
What could it be?
There has been a lot of talk about if or how Sony is going to implement a premium PSN service. One of their most recent patents does not help matters, titled “Cloudsurf.”
Somehow I don't think this is what they meant...
Filed just on December 28th, the patent describes basically anything electronic, including audio players, set top boxes, video game machines and more. Patents tend to be very broad so that the products they describe can be used for all sorts of applications. The final couple of lines of descriptions are the most interesting:
“Game services provided on-line from a computer network; entertainment services, namely, providing on-line computer games, music, video and related information; rental of audio equipment; online distribution of music, image or video; providing on-line electronic publications, not downloadable; online distribution of radio and television programs”
While game services provided for by a network is nothing new, online publications (other than the newly-released comic book store) and non-downloadable products are very new. Could this be a streaming service? It really is unkown what Cloudsurf is, but rest assured as soon as any information is released you can read about it here.
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January 4th, 2010 at 11:17 AM
I am sure that this is for their Premium Service do out soon. Should hear more during CES 2010.
January 4th, 2010 at 11:50 AM
hello …
now i’m impatient about this …
cheers!
January 4th, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Do you guys remember OnLive? Whatever happened to that mess?
January 4th, 2010 at 12:22 PM
‘Cloud gaming’ really has me excited. Brilliant technology if you ask me.
@Xael What do you mean “mess”?! And it’s in close-Beta phase.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:20 PM
no one really knows where this is headed, but nice to see Sony is preparing for the inevitable
domination of the world by robotic overlords. Here comes Skynet v1.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:03 PM
@The80’s
It is a mess, I’ve seen the interviews promoting OnLive, you don’t even have to pay close to attention to realize how expensive it’s going to be. To top it off, not only are you paying for the service, you will also have to buy the game, of which you never download, so therefor you don’t actually own. It will forever be on their servers allowing for instant streaming of the content you paid for. So unlike actually consoles, like the Dreamcast, when it failed at least you still have your Dreamcast and you can play all the games you bought anytime you want. But once this fails (and it will – Read: Phantom) that will mean the servers will go down and you will no longer have access to all the $50-$60 dollar games you paid for to get streamed to you. The gaming library won’t be that great, because it’s a no brainer that these guys won’t get liscenses to all the Stellar 1st party titles, with games like Halo/Fable – God of War/Gran Turismo – Mario/Zelda to name a few.
This is just another gimmick by some rich smuck to get his greedy hands on another industry. But at least the great thing about it is that it will never get anywhere to hurt the gaming industry. Your facing the big 3 Sony – Microsoft – Nintendo and of course if cloud gaming is indeed the future, then you know these big three companies are already working on their own versions of them that will be far better and affordable than that OnLive nonsense.
January 8th, 2010 at 2:09 AM
internet 2.0