"You can use a PS3 as a dedicated server."

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Dylan Jobe

Producer at Incognito (Warhawk), on Sony's online service

"Sony's not going to charge you. That allows us some freedom. If, hypothetically, Sony was incredibly rigid and you had to pay for everything, then we wouldn't be able to allow gamers to host their own servers or have these more complicated network structures. Sony gives us a lot of freedom in that regard. In Warhawk, you can use a PS3 as a dedicated server. You'll see stats, the map, and all of that, so you can be an administrator."

This is very interesting, I would imagine a 32 player game in Warhawk would be less laggy if a dedicated machine was running it. I think it's the step in the right direction, I mean PC games have been doing this for years, seems like a good idea.

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Well many buy PCs more ofthen that Console cycles (4-5 years?)..so they will have more PCs spare. I have 2 PCs spare for server jobs (+-2Ghz/1gb ram).

I wonder how many will have extra PS3s? Would be neeter if you could run dedicated servers on x86 platforms...

oh well, still nice I guess

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Would be neeter if you could run dedicated servers on x86 platforms...

That would be good for all systems. I have a PC and a 360.

I would be much happier leavin my stable tested PC on all day hosting, than I would leavin on a games console.

I would also be able to play on my 360 at the same time or use my PC for browsing etc. Best of both worlds.

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Upload speeds in the UK just aren't fast enough for this to work. I can't host 8 people in Counter Strike: Source without lagging tremendously. Although of course that's only a problem if Sony didn't provide their own servers. I wonder how they're going to finance them. Because if people end up paying for dedicated servers (as with the vast majority of PC games), Sony's online service is not free (that includes not being able to use your own PS3 to play the game whilst it's a host machine).

Oh, and I don't like the idea of relying on another person as a host.

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tis true what the other guy said.

i have 10mbps down but only like 256k up or something to that effect. actually i think its 512k but still its FAR too little compared to my downspeed.

but you'll find sites with huge servers will get ps3's like jolt.co.uk and will have series of ps3 servers setup for people and such, i think thats the idea rather than people doing it from home.

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MLIFE

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Thought it was 600 USD in the US?

Anyways, I dont see this is as loosing a plot just adding some feature that seems which wont be used that much as most people wont have a PS3 running just as a server.

If it allowed to run on x86 archs then I could be having 100/100 and 100/10 mbit servers = [ but sadly that wont happen.

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you'll find sites with huge servers will get ps3's like jolt.co.uk and will have series of ps3 servers setup for people and such, i think thats the idea rather than people doing it from home.

No dedicated server providers will use PS3s. The quality simply won't be sufficient for use as a server.

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yankee lion

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Well, I'm thinking this is just an option people have. It's pretty obvious by now Sony will just do "matchmaking" like Microsoft does with Live. The person with the fastest connection in the room hosts the game. I think this is just a little bonus, like if a clan wants their own servers, etc.

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Well, I'm thinking this is just an option people have. It's pretty obvious by now Sony will just do "matchmaking" like Microsoft does with Live. The person with the fastest connection in the room hosts the game. I think this is just a little bonus, like if a clan wants their own servers, etc.

Exactly like maybe if you run a game servers for a pc game and its down for whatever reason you can use the ps3 with linux until its up. Thats the only way I would use it as a server, I would never host a ps3 game on will.

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Well, I'm thinking this is just an option people have. It's pretty obvious by now Sony will just do "matchmaking" like Microsoft does with Live. The person with the fastest connection in the room hosts the game. I think this is just a little bonus, like if a clan wants their own servers, etc.

I'm not sure whether you fully understand how Live works. Microsoft still provide all the server bandwidth (and you have to pay for that). No users are relied on to provide server bandwidth. This is the most effective way of providing an online gaming service. How Sony hope to achieve something similar for free is beyond me.

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Xbox Live does have servers but they don't handle specific games. The only thing they do is handle stuff like messaging, friend lists, stuff like that. Only a specific few games are hosted on a server and those are usually paid by the game's publisher.

The only reason you have to pay for Live is because Microsoft has to make a profit somehow, and even then I am not sure they do.

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I think something like this is great.

For use if you're not going to be using it but some friends want a server to play one that they wouldn't have to worry about hosting, wouldn't have to worry about the player disconnecting if they were losing or something stupid, use for clan matches.

Don't really see a downside to this as long as they don't limit this too much.

Yeah but unlike a PC, a PS3 would probably blow up if you left it on for days at a time as a dedicated server.

And don't give me that "Stop being an anti-fanboy" bull****; you all know it's true.

Why bother posting at all, you just come off as a right prat. :no:

And when the PS3 comes out and has as many defects as the PS2 has had in its lifetime, am i allowed to throw that back in your face you stupid sony fanboy?

well when u sell as many as they did, problems are going to happen, same for any console, you just have to remember he was just retaliating against something someone had already said, and you're calling him a fanboy. :huh:

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