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Sony in talks with businesses about possible commercial uses for PS3s

Posted Apr 11, 2007 at 7:27PM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Financial Times, Folding@Home, playstation 3 updates, Sony, Stanford University

In the wake of Sony's successful non-profit partnership with Stanford University for the Folding@Home program on the next gen PS3 videogame console, several companies have begun discussions with Sony about "possible commercial applications" for the PS3.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Masa Chatani, chief technology officer at Sony Computer Entertainment, revealed that Sony had received numerous inquiries regarding the "distributed computing" model they are using for Folding@Home.

"This kind of computing model could be used in a commercial application," Mr Chatani said. "For example, a start-up or a pharmaceutical company that lacks a super-computer could utilise this kind of infrastructure. We are discussing various options with companies and exploring commercial applications."

Chatani admitted that a commercial endeavour would be more difficult to launch because it would be hard to convince users to let profit-making companies use the power of their PS3s for free. According to the Financial Times, Sony is "currently studying whether it would need to offer incentives, such as free products, to persuade PS3 owners to participate" -- the answer to which is (for this writer, at least) quite obviously "Yes".

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if anything is gonna make me not buy the ps3 , it is sony's stupid marketing ploys and there childish arrogance.

i swear if sony was a kid at school i would absolutely be turned off on everything that kid does or says because of the kids character. Sony , you have some good games coming in 2008 (i dont know if that is too late though)

so relax and have patience. stop playing dumb games.

also face the fact that the ps3 is sooo expensive. and last but not least , grow the f.... up. damn!!!!!!

# shut up idiot — Guest 2007-04-11 23:41

What the hell. Everytime. It's some ass hole saying "I hate sony" what the fu ck do you have to say?? You are an absolute fu cking moron... Stupid marketing ploys? If they wanna pay me or give me stuff for my ps3's spare time (and electric bill) all the better. I just hope they wait until we cure something important with folding at home :)

# Yes For Me If... — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-04-11 23:41

companies give something worth my wild like maybe adding credits to my PLAYSTION Store account or something.

# yh — Guest 2007-04-11 23:56

me too and free blurays and games for my ps3 hehe let me rephrase that games that are new and not yet out not just old released games

# POINT — Guest 2007-04-12 03:07

I AGREE... why not have the PS3 work on an Hourly basis... and get paid credits... that would be awesome

# ...thats friggin stupid — Guest 2007-04-12 04:22

first its a gaming console, then "entertainment center", now "computing model"

how many pseudonyms can sony come up with for a blu-ray player with games tacked on, hey don't flame me, thats how they've been marketing it

i guess i can call my graphing calculator a computing entertainment model too

they shouldn't push a product into a market its not originally designed to deal

sound like someone is overly desperate and don't know what to do with an excess (necessary?) of computing power, and if you really think a big company like sony would generously give benefits to its customers...well...this kind of computing would require some sort of security, which will be impossible to enforce(due to modding, hacking) which ruins the whole premise, or on the other end, sacrifices your freedoms with whatever you want to do with your console...

# idiot — Guest 2007-04-12 06:16

Of course sony would give free benefits since they would obviously be receiving compensation from any company that is for profit. Folding @ home is different since it is a nonprofit.

You get mad and say that the PS3 is being referred to as all these different names... there's a simple reason for it. The PS3 can do many things so if it can play movies, games, cure cancer, and ***** your gf...whats your problem?

# what about hacking? — Guest 2007-04-12 11:33

I agree with the point of the comment before. If sony starts paying people (or however they get rewarded) for completing Work Units people are gonna hack the soft to not complete but send fake WUs. This program like Folding @ Home works just because no one is gonna be so stupid to hack the software for anything just to spoil such a good opportunity. But if u put money in there there are gonna be people trying to hack it thats for sure...

# Long Time — Temprix 2007-04-12 14:51

You'd have to packet-sniff for a long time to get all of the information that would most likely be needed for a completed, encrypted work unit. Plus, the companies would see that something doesn't add up right, and then they would trace that work unit to your PS3, and, well, game over.

# kind of agree — Guest 2007-04-23 03:47

They would probably try to hack it, but I doubt that they could succeed. I was thinking the company would do something along the lines of making there be a certain number generated by each packet, and then the ps3 cracks that number during the process and sends it back as verification that the packet was really completed, but I know nothing of this really so maybe I shouldn't be talking.

But I do know that big companies with lots of money have lots of ways to keep you from hacking their system.

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