PSN to go "paid subscription" route?

[Mark240473]

My guess is that Sony will either charge a fee to those who want to use the forthcoming cross-game chat feature. Or, it could simply be that subscription service that was talked about months ago, where you pay a monthly fee and recieve so many PSN titles.

I'm certain it'll be one of the two.
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[roger4000]

they wont get a penny from my pocket for sure. i'll stick to xbox live only.
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[lmimmfn]

if i have to pay a sub to play online on the PS3 i'll be getting rid of it.
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[ensabahnur]

Well if they do go sub based for PSN then thats gonna be a big kick in the teeth to the people who opted for PS3 for the free online and the people who cancelled their Live subs cause they could use the PSN for free.
They've been touting the free aspect from day 1 as a advantage over the Xbox so i can't really see them going back on their word, as said this may well be for some kind of MMO or some other service.

If they were to go sub based for PSN i'd just stick with Live seeing as any multiformat MP game i get is bought for the 360 with the PS3 picking up the majority of my single player games, though i would miss playing Uncharted 2 online.
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[Mark240473]

Calm down, chaps. It's a little early for conspiracy theories, don't you think?



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[bennyboi1979]

They will never charge like M$, this must be for something we have not heard of yet!! Maybe something like Quore???

[Osiris25]

Get your knifes at the ready peopl, this one could be brutal!

Sony do have a couple of MMO's for the PS3 in production but you generally pay for those anyway so I don't see them appling an additional charge for that. Maybe its for certain features of PSN. If however they are charging for games online it could have a small backfire effect in that anyone already paying for xbox live who owns a PS3 is unlikey to want to pay for PSN as well, in which case they may start buying their games for Xbox and shun the PS3. That just a thought not a damning of the PS3 or anything to that effect for the fanboys out there.

[StonecoldMC]

[Dajmin]

Tough call for Sony. They must know their online system is well behind XBL, but Live has been around longer to establish itself. Without that funding, would Live be the top-notch service it is?

Free PSN access is currently about the only definite point they have over MS. Now that hardware reliability seems to be sorted and the games lists are pretty balanced, anyway.

Can they do right for themselves (by funding bigger and better servers) at the same time as doing right by the players (by keeping it free)?
Tough call, I don't envy them.
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[Wozzakl]

Wouldn't waste money on it, same as I wouldn't to share space with MSgeeks.

[bunneyo]

i hope they dont charge us, but then again il happly give sony a fiver a year for a better network lol

[monty_79]

They are bound to start charging for PSN online play, surely? Live has proved that it is a valuble revenue stream, so surely they would be foolish (froma shareholder/corporate point of view) not to?

Also, anyone who says they 'wouldn't go back on their word' are living in dream land. If they can monetise it, they will.

[gogo65uk]

I don't mind if it improves things slightly but live didn't really do anything to justify their charges. Hence why I cancelled it. Personally I think it would be a bad move. But the recent figures showing 31 million PSN users made a $$ appear in their eyes.
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[steve_2003]

Microsoft realised at the start that the only way an online service could survive & prosper is by way of an annual charge, a charge that I feel is a bargain for the services given.
The losses Sony announced earlier this year make it a certainty that a charged PSN service will soon be here. I don't think I'll be coughing up yet another charge for Sony's "catch-up" service on my PS3 though, sorry.

[l87ry]

What makes Xbox Live better than PSN?

[StonecoldMC]

[Mark240473]

[voodoo341]

[martb]

[bunneyo]

well seems as this as been updated, i get where sony are coming from now, for example, they mite incorperate a subscription service where like with this new video rental/buy service, you can pay a monthly fee and rent so many or as many films as you want, which could bring the price point cheaper were as if you rented a movie and only pay the single fee everytime u did so, if thats what their getting at then it sounds cool and better for us! intresting stuff, it would be awesome if they could do online game rental aswell, imagine that, the new AC2 game comes out and you could play it for a day or 2 and then given the choice to buy the full game afterwards, way ahead of its time in the sense of downloading a full new game, but i defo think its sumthing they should look into, they could even sell the games themselves, cheaper priced even and send them to you in the post if you preferred the disc version!

[bennyboi1979]

As i said above!!! Thanks for clarifying Sony.

[lmimmfn]

[Mark240473]

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