They might only be used for
save game storage, for all we know thus far.
A PlayStation Plus membership offers PS4 online multiplayer, freebies each month on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita (check out November's offerings here), online, cloud - based
save game storage and exclusive discounts and beta access.
Not exact matches
According to Iwata, Animal Crossing: New Leaf uses a modified 3DS
game cart which offers additional
save data
storage compared to the traditional 3DS
game cart.
Cloud
Storage — Upload your
saved games and character profiles to the cloud and continue playing when you sign in to any other PS4.
Critically, Nintendo Switch Online will finally let Switch owners backup their
game saves to a network cloud
storage, which will come as a huge relief to those who have hours worth of data
saved on their system and no way to protect it if the console breaks or gets lost.
Once you melded a couple of times and found decorations you want, load your previous
save game from the cloud
storage and restart the
game again.
We've since moved on from passwords thanks to carts that
save games and
storage space on platforms, but Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii would like to see passwords return.
Having unlimited
storage space via the Cloud does indeed somewhat combat the fact that you can not upgrade the Xbox One's default 500 GB HDD, but
game saves, profiles and the like don't really take up much space anyway, so at the moment this unlimited Cloud
storage really only helps those that need store massive amounts of
saves and profiles, which, I would imagine, is only a small portion of
gamers.
You can pick up a terabyte of
storage space these days pretty cheaply, allowing you to store anything that the primary drive can, meaning download
games,
save files, Achievements, music, films and more.
I did some quick google searches to fact - check your statements as you asked, and came up with this: when Plus started in mid-2010, it offered all the features we're familiar with (including access to the first IGC titles), with the exception of the online
storage area for
saved games.
Explicit
save points were popular with early console
games, both for
storage reasons and for
game design reasons, but there's just no good excuse for them today.
Don't forget that in addition to the free
games that come with your membership, PS Plus also delivers PS Vita benefits such as discounts, online
storage for
game saves, Automatic Updates, and auto Trophy sync!
If there's basic online play functionality, some type of cloud - based
storage /
saving system, and an offering of free
games each month, I'll be happy.
Microsoft provides a generous 2 GB of online
storage for 360 users, which should be enough to store most of your
game saves, but you'll need to be a member of Xbox Live Gold ($ 60 per year) to take advantage of the feature.
They won't add new
games to replace those but instead will increase cloud
storage for your
saves more improved better online experience and even greater discounts instead
PS Now enables players to stream
games without
game downloads, installs, or patches as well as
save game progress in the PS Now cloud
save storage so that they can seamlessly resume their progress on a PS4 or Windows PC.
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While the Xbox One does allow you to connect an external
storage device via USB on which to store
game content, the PlayStation 4 allows you to replace the internal 500 GB SATA drive with a new SATA drive of up to 2 TB giving you 4x the
storage space for
games saves, music and video.
The cloud
storage is only for
game saves?
Setting the PS4 Pro as your primary console will allow you to automatically download updates, share content with other users and upload your
save game data to your PlayStation Plus cloud
storage.
Plus continues to get better and better with online
game save storage increasing to 1 GB last week as well as new details on Plus for PS Vita.
Xbox One 1 TB Fallout 4 bundle gives you enough internal
storage to
save and re-
save your
game that could glitch any moment.
The PS Vita version will be cross-buy and cross-
save with the PS4 version meaning that if you buy the
game on either platform, you will get the other version for free, and that you can transfer your
save files between PS Vita and PS4 via Sony's online cloud
storage.
Additionally, we're upgrading Online
Game Save Storage.
3 gigabytes of
storage are available to members and can be used to
save game data from the PS Vita, PS3, and PS4.
Previously, Online
Game Saves offered up to 150 MB of game save data storage in the cloud for PlayStatio
Game Saves offered up to 150 MB of
game save data storage in the cloud for PlayStatio
game save data
storage in the cloud for PlayStation 3.
Xbox's
Games with Gold program only offers
games from Xbox 360 and Xbox One, but and Xbox 360
game offered is automatically backwards compatible and can play on the One S. PS Plus also offers 10 GB of cloud
storage for your
game saves.
The PS4
game saves are huge and they are killing the cloud
storage limit.
I, like hundreds of thousands of PSN Plus members have been clamouring and running out of cloud
storage to
save our precious
game save data onto.
with this new 1gb
game save storage space...... I can
save more files, just in case I will need to re-download them into another Ps3 unit.
Don't know how the «Upgrading of PS Plus Online
Game Save storage / cloud to 1gb» is not THE # 1 Most Important Plus content update during the month of September.
Remote play dependent on a wireless connection, not every
game could be remote played, memory card and
storage limitations, two copies of a single
game, cross
save, lack of all of the shoulder buttons, and on and on.
I assume
game data is
saved directly onto these cards, freeing up space but
games will require installation, with Zelda taking up almost half of your
storage space!
Along with the Instant
Game Collection you also get 1 GB of cloud storage for all your saves, early access for game beta's including the highly anticipated Destiny beta that Playstation Plus members will have first access to and huge discounts on all types of games and
Game Collection you also get 1 GB of cloud
storage for all your
saves, early access for
game beta's including the highly anticipated Destiny beta that Playstation Plus members will have first access to and huge discounts on all types of games and
game beta's including the highly anticipated Destiny beta that Playstation Plus members will have first access to and huge discounts on all types of
games and DLC.
Besides that for some
games you DO N'T NEED the cards as some companies put
storage space on the cards for
saves.
While I love Free Avatars and Themes, which I can keep despite my subscription (as used to be true of DLC), and Upgrading Online
Game Save Storage to 1 GB, which really takes a load off my mind, I'd say Release Week Discounts were the best incentive.
The Famicom Disk System utilized floppy disks for
game storage and
saving.
It's not all bad news for PS3
gamers though - the «transfarring» mechanism allows players to swap their Peace Walker
save states between the PS3 and PSP via cloud
storage (though after playing on PS3, you'll never want to go back!)
Members will also have up to 1 GB of space allocated for
game saves in Sony's Online Game Save Storage cl
game saves in Sony's Online
Game Save Storage cl
Game Save Storage cloud.
You will also continue to get exclusive benefits such as online
game save storage and discounts across the PlayStation digital services.»
sony place
save no more on mem cards out of fear peopel wil cheat, but stil peopel are cheating / trophie levels + in
game hacks + cheats (so i need savecards = 1000x better then online
storage)
PlayStation Plus also enables cloud
storage for your
saved games, freeing up memory for even more programmes.
As soon as the driving sequence begins, pause the
game, select «
Save and Exit», then go to your console's settings, and copy the save game to a USB flash drive or cloud stor
Save and Exit», then go to your console's settings, and copy the
save game to a USB flash drive or cloud stor
save game to a USB flash drive or cloud
storage.
Playstation Plus» other features aren't available during the free weekend but include free
games, exclusive discounts in PlayStation Store, up to 3 GB of online
save storage, and one membership applies across the Playstation 4, Playstation 3, and Playstation Vita.
Plus also gets you 1 GB of cloud
storage for your
saved games.
However, the secondary accounts will not get early access to
games, access to buy discounted or free
games, or be able to make use of the 10 GB of cloud
storage for
save files.
Best of all, these
games support the badly - named yet extremely useful «Transfarring» feature, allowing you to share
saves between the PS3 and Vita versions via cloud
storage.
Blinx really has some great ideas, and actually has another use for the Hard Drive besides just
saving storage, and
game add - ons.
To
save your
games to a USB drive all you need to do is pop it into one of your PS4's USB slots and head to «Application
saved data management» in «Settings» and then select
Saved Data System
Storage Copy Data To USB
Storage.
Firstly, 360 owners will receive 2 GB of cloud
storage for
game saves.