Over on the EU PS Blog it has been announced that as of tomorrow PS Plus members will be getting a cloud based save service. After downloading firmware update 3.60 you will be able to have up to 1000 saves, or 150mb of data.
“To do so, simply highlight the game save you want to store in the [Saved Data Utility (PS3)], press the triangle button to bring up the options, select “copy” and then select “Online Storage” as the destination. In turn, you can access your Online Storage list via [Saved Data Utility (PS3)] when signed into PlayStation Network on a friend’s PS3 and download your stored game saves to carry on your game from where you left off.
If the developer has chosen to implement copy protection on their game saves, you can still copy those files to Online Storage but there will be a 24 hour period, after each save, before you can then download them on any PS3.
If your PlayStation Plus subscription expires then you will no longer be able to access Online Storage until you renew your subscription. However, any game saves stored will be kept for six months and you will be able to access them as before when you renew the subscription, as long as you do so within that six month period.”
Source: EU PS Blog
Kevling
Sorted out all my saves last night, it’s nice to know I can back up my copy-protected ones now that I’ve previously only been able to do with full backups.
Scarily I’ve used over half my 150Mb already!
In terms of functionality, it works *exactly* the same as copying to a USB stick (which I was doing anyway), and the upload seems a lot faster too*.
* Of course, it may just be the fact I either have a very slow USB stick, or a nice 1.3Mb upload speed. Or both.