News Sony trademark PS Cloud name

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/03/31/sony-trademark-ps-cloud-name/1

New Sony trademark could hint at competition for OnLive streaming service.

 

Ironic being their console hardware is the least in need of offloading processing tasks!

 

QFT.

Also, I hope that should this progress further than this, that they don't call it PS Online, because.. It sounds awful.

 

OR That the PSP can offload the rasterization to the PS3 ;-)

 

Sounds interesting........for the PSP2, maybe?

 

After all the problems and controversy with the PS3's pricing, especially in the "current economic environment"/"credit crunch"/"recession" (choose your preferred media term), utilising a system similar to that of OnLive would be a marvellous idea, and a complete turnaround.

Look how successful the Wii is at it's price point, and how the Xbox 360 picked up once it dropped below £200. If Sony could release a console at a price point of around £50 (or free with a subscription) with the power of something worth a lot more remotely accessed in a rendering farm somewhere, I think they'd seriously be onto a winner. Not sure how many OnLive patents they'd have to licence to do so though!