According to Kotaku, several sources at developers have received information from Sony that a new feature would arrive with the 3.60 firmware update for the PS3.

Apparently the patch will allow you to store savegames with the Cloud principle. To say it less techy: your savegames will be kept online available and will be available from any console you log in on with your profile.

You save some room and don't run the risk of ever losing your saves. Until Sony decides they've had enough and delete them anyway of course, or if and when their servers crash, but that's another story we probably don't have to worry about.

According to those same devs the function would only become available to subscribers of Playstation Plus.

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