April 12th, 2007
Facing the PS3 debacle, Sony is casting about for alternate revenue streams from the $600 game console. And they may have found one: Pimping out your PS3’s Cell processor to do networked computing aps for other companies while you’re not using it Awesome!
Galley Friend K.N. sends us the dirt from the FT:
Sony PlayStation 3 users may soon be asked to share the supercomputer power of their video game consoles with companies that lack their own technology to run complex research projects, the Financial Times was told.
Sony Computer Entertainment is in discussions with a number of companies about possible commercial applications for the PlayStation 3. This comes in the wake of its non-profit partnership with Stanford University in March that harnesses the spare computing capacity of registered PS3s for the analysis of protein cells.
However, because this would be a commercial proposition that would benefit profit-making organisations, Sony is studying whether it would need to offer incentives, such as free products, to persuade PS3 owners to participate.
Another PR coup for Sony!
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