Sony responds to OnLive with PS Cloud patent

[Queasy]

GI.biz

Sony Computer Entertainment may enter into cloud computing, the operation of services from a remote server, according to a filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The electronics giant's Japanese office filed the patent for 'PS Cloud' on March 24, a day after the GDC debut of OnLive, the online game streaming service.

The filing unveils early plans to make the service available to handheld game devices as well as consoles and details PS Cloud as providing "entertainment services, namely, providing an online videogame that users may access through the internet".

According to Sony's filing, PS Cloud could also offer streaming music as well as electronic books and magazines.

This should be interesting because OnLive's CEO essentially claimed that nobody would really be able to compete with them until 2022 because of all the patents they own.

 

[erwos]

My guess is that they're talking about streaming the game _data_ to your console for rendering, not doing the rendering themselves. I very much doubt it'll be anything resembling the OnLive stuff.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Is the PSP remote play kind of OnLivePSP? Or is it game data not screens?

 

[RedRooster]

I wonder if they'll not charge for this, too?

Good for them though, this very well might be the future of gaming. The way they're doing it though, if erwos ir right, not the BS OnLive way that will never work.