PS3 Owners: Would you pay PSN subscription fee?
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: May 20, 2009 | 17 Comments
There has been talk of Sony possibly introducing a subscription fee for their Playstation Network. The fee won’t affect online play, but instead the idea of giving you access to a number of PSN titles each month.
The news comes from Tawkn, after they spotted this questionnaire from Sony, asking users for their views on the possible service. The questionnaire seems to relate to the PSP quite a lot, but it’s pretty certain that the move would happen on the PS3 and then games paid for would be playable on the PSP.
How would you feel about a PSN rental service from Sony? It looks like Sony are not going to introduce any charges for online play, so we think this is an idea that looks promising. The move could also be further evidence that Sony are thinking of bringing the UMD format to a halt, with the next PSP hardware model being disc-less, meaning all games would be available on the PSN.
Let us know your thoughts on this below.
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Think its a bloody good idea, Sony and game developers really got shafted with the old PSP range and its easily hackable interface, its a brilliant device and even better with Custom Firmware and homebrew apps (especially if you have the original Jap fat psp).
Sony need to make the new PSP more open to application creation for it, like the iPhone or similar device where you can get and download all kinds of fun and useful apps for it, I don’t think entirely scrapping UMD is clever, but introducing a large digital side to it would be a fantastic idea, I would definately pay a subscription fee if it was a decent price and enables access to decent content and features.
No way. PSN is like 99% of Xbox Live these days, without the charges, and with generally higher quality content (well same amount of good content, but with none of the piles of crap clogging up XBLIve).
There is no way Sony would introduce charges on PSN. They might offer additional services (like Quore) core additional cost, but what you get today will always be free.
You didn’t actually read the article did you?
@Mak
The subscription fee wouldn’t be a replacement of what we currently have now, that will always be free unlike Xbox Live, the subsciption would be to allow you to download content for free, kind of like software assurance in a strange sense ^^ Aswell as allowing you access to other content and features.
I personally believe it would be a great idea. As long as it doesnt cut into the online play and you can still enter the PSN store and get demos and videos. I think it great because the user can have a choice to pay or not and if you pay, you can get an amount of PSN titles a month. Then more people will have games from PSN. I also hope to see more playstation cards as i dont have a credit card and i think most people do not feel safe using it. I also hope u get free DLC so i can finally have the Kllzone DLC map packs
Are you out of your mind psn does not even have half the content of live. I own both consoles, now if you are talking about a psn Japan account then I would say they are even.
that’s the worst idea I have ever heard….there’s no way i would pay for it! I have to get my father to pay for like random $2.00 things there and he gets SO pissed even when i pay for that. Also, it’s the reason I got a PS3….NO FEES. KEEP IT REAL!!!!
The questionnaire is about the potential of renting games via the store, not making the whole network subscription based - they’re two entirely different concepts!!
Subscription fee is what’s putting me off the 360. I don’t think it’s fair that you pay a high price for a machine and then you have to pay extra to go online when you’re already paying for internet on the PC. Pfft. Don’t do it sony!
Sony won’t take anything away, so what we enjoy for free on PSN (and what others have to pay for), will always be free. I have no problems with additional services being chargeable, as Sony are a company and have to make money, if it means it continues to subsidize my free PSN, then thats fine by me.
The only real losers are Xbox owners, getting boned £40 a year for a service that is now equally as good on PS3 (and in some ways better). Of course they will never admit there is little difference, and Microsoft are happy to let the story continue that they have some vastly superior service that warrants the price of a full game EVERY year…
Admit what, that you are delusional live has 10 times the content as Euro and US psn. Other than Pixel Junk what else do you have, 10-15 psone titles. Don’t even try throwing Home in there its useless. I got on there once waited to bowl and that is it, although I do like the bubble machine. So what else does the psn have? I will admit I do not have a Euro account on live so if the content does suck then I am sorry. The content in the US is great for live and is far more extensive than the psn in all regions except Japan.
you seem to know quite a bit about the PSN. Im assuming you only own a 360, since you are defending it like it was your child. Other than the crap you read on news sites about it, how would you know what was on the PSN, Europe or US? If you have a ps3, Im sorry, but seriously, wheres the point in buying it if you’re going to attack its quality and its features on a review site?