Sony has filed a trademark notice here in the U.S. for the word "Cloudsurf," and the trademark relates to a number of different products and services, including everything from audio players to game consoles to video cameras, as well as online distribution of games, music and television. In other words, it could be for anything that Sony has made or sold, ever.
Edge guesses that it could have something to do with online distribution or even storage via a subscription model, and you might remember that earlier last year, Sony trademarked "PS Cloud," then hinting at a "cloud computing" system to provide storage or processing over the Internet. Of course, companies file trademarks all the time, without any obligation to reveal or release whatever product they're working on. So right now, "Cloudsurf" is made up of nothing but thin air -- permeated, we'd imagine, by a floaty, visible mass of condensed water droplets.
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Jan 5th 2010 11:31PM (Unverified) said
Wasn't potential online storage mentioned in that for-pay PSN list?
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 12:24AM Goaliegeek said
Yup. I would love that. Upload my RB2 game save on my 20GB and pull it down onto my Slim. Then my universe would be in perfect harmony again.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2010 11:44PM (Unverified) said
It's true, no doubt. Seriously, what Sony rumor HASN'T been true?
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 12:03AM SecretAgentHam said
cloud surf sounds more of a way to browse through a cloud network than cloud strife surfing....however i do perfer the latter. hang ten brah.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 6:01AM McDuckScrooged said
It would be interesting to know where they are going with this. All Sony devices will be internet ready by the sounds of it and all connected to the PSCloud which you can then cloud surf ??
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 9:36AM Draco84 said
What they really need to do is save games like Torchlight, actual cloud, so when I play my PS1 classics on my PSP I can continue the game on PS3 without spending (what feels like forever) getting the PSP removing the memory card, putting it in the PS3, copying it, then putting it back in the PSP and putting the PSP away.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2010 11:54AM ComicShaman said
Cloud computing.
That would mean your computer would have kick-ass specs but also would be subject to fits of depression, memory corruption, and could easily be hacked by Sephiroth. I don't know if that's such a good idea.
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That would mean your computer would have kick-ass specs but also would be subject to fits of depression, memory corruption, and could easily be hacked by Sephiroth. I don't know if that's such a good idea.
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