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Sony in talks with businesses about possible commercial uses for PS3s |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Financial Times, Folding@Home, playstation 3 updates, Sony, Stanford University
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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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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!!!!!!
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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...
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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?
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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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