Thursday, November 19, 2009

PSN may not always be free?

 

      "SCE will further increase sales by offering users new entertainment through the combination of hardware, software, peripheral and PlayStation Network," said PlayStation head Kaz Hirai in a statement.

"Especially in the online area, we are studying the possibility of introducing a subscription model, offering premium content and services, in addition to the current free services."Eurogamer...

     I'm a little worried about what these "premium content and services" might be.  I'm thinking that this might be their way of adding cross game chat and friends lists.  Also they might start coming out with DLC first for whoever is on these "premium services."  Similar to the way Microsoft does it.  Sony has a pretty bare bones store and services currently.   I think they need to work on their free services before they start promising premium ones.  Because at this point all the PSN is worth is what you pay for it; nothing.  Well they could all ways add HOME to the premium services and make it actually worth using.  Don't ask me how, but it might be a good direction to go.

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