Sony offers cloud storage as part of a Playstation Plus membership, which is great. I was really excited when they rolled that out because I live in a multi-PS3 household and some games think that the ability to copy game saves to USB would explode your head or something, so they forbid it. Look, I get it, you don’t want a nearly-the-end game save showing up online, but you can lock it to the original user profile.
Anyway, that might suck, but cloud saves were surely the answer right? Wrong! Once you upload a game save you have to wait 24 hours until you can copy it to another PlayStation, even though that cloud save is locked to your Plus account. Surely it was a temporary setback, especially considering Sony used cloud game saves as a talking point this past E3.
The 3.70 update came out this week, and along with it brought automatic cloud save uploads. Well, if it’s saving automatically to the cloud they must have done away with the dumb 24 hour waiting period, BUT THEY DIDN’T. You still have to wait 24 hours, and until that is changed they’re going to be tooting their own horn over a feature that is severely limited in its usage.
Who wants to wait 24 hours to continue playing a game on a different console? Bringing your PS3 with you seems like less of a hassle.