Poll Poll: Willing to share your console's low power/rest mode compute for PSN/XBL Credit? (12 votes)
Would any of you be willing to share your console's low power/rest mode "compute", something like 30-40 watts for some PSN/XBL Credit. Maybe even lock 10% of your storage to help Sony/MS.
Say something like $ 10 to15 PSN/XBL Credit for every 30 days of low power/rest mode compute and maybe 10% of your storage.
On top of that you also get free 1 Year PS Plus/1 Year XBL Gold for every 180 days.
It's counted by the hour so you don't have to do a straight 30 days of low power/rest mode "compute" sharing. You can do one hour a day if you like but that means it would take much longer to get that $ 10 or 15 Credit.
Maybe Sony/MS can use it for some mega Cloud compute that may help PSN/XBL in its speed/stability or create games that are able to be supplemented by the congregate compute. I wouldn't be surprised if they used some of that for other purpose like mining or medical.
The credits from sharing this low power/rest mode "compute" is just a rough figure but would probably be implemented in a way that the cost for Sony/MS would be less than maintaining traditional servers (if that's possible at all).
Initially Sony/MS would probably still have to provided some dynamic servers to maintain a certain minimum compute to compensate of people dropping in and out.
It would be interesting if Sony/MS doesn't lock down the credit/yearly sub and could be gifted but they'd have to take measures so that it can't be used for scamming/heavy abuse.
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