PS3 Owners: Would you pay PSN subscription fee?
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: May 20, 2009 | 20 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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@sinn1
I think you are the one who is delusional, are you sure you really own both consoles? or do you just immagine that you own both consoles?
you say that Pixel Junk is about the only game on the PSN, I don’t think you could possibly be any more wrong, Unlike Live the PSN offers FULL HD complete game downloads, has piles of other smaller games like well, Pixel Junk now that you mention it, has previous classics and psp games, plus content for the majority, Almost every Thursday a new game is released into the store, sometimes multiple games. Plus the addition of Home which over the last month has taken massive jumps, and over the next months even more, and thats just SCEE, SCEA has multiple times that content.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think the Xbox 360 is a good system with plenty of Microsoft games that are great for it, it does have a decent system behind it, but trying to battle out this price thing is stupid, lets say you buy an xbox Elite console for £220 (its the closest you can get to the ps3 in the xbox range), then you get a wireless adapter for around £40, and then you get 3 years worth of Live GOLD membership for 3 coins under £120 (3 years because thats the length of the Xbox warranty thanks to law suits bought against Microsoft for their unreliable unit). Now thats £380 without even downloading a single piece of premium content from Live or purchasing any games. For that price you can pick up a PS3 which has a blu-ray drive, free PSN, built in wireless and all the usual stuff plus a free game, plus you can add in a 3 year warranty like the xbox’s and still come in at £30 the cost of the xbox setup, now that cash could be spent on a new game, or a whole bunch of games in the PSN Store. Go figure.
I own a 360 and fortunately I get all my hardware and software for free so it would seem pointless me not having one when I get it for free (including live subscription), if it wasn’t for that I can’t see why I would spend money on one, I mean sure you can pick up the base unit with no frills, no wireless, no HDD etc for 125 quid, but your gonna have to start spending money on it soon, nobody can stick with a base unit for long.
@everybody else
Everything you currently get on the PSN would still be free, nothing would change, except if you wanted you would be able to get a subscription which would open up some extra content for you, plus allow you to download x amount of games each month, its just additional, all the usual stuff would be free.
You claim to own one but don’t know its features, very sad. I have a ps3 and I have a psn account in all three regions. I own all game systems, I am a true gamer. I get tired of ps3 only owners like yourself that don’t know what you are talking about. I only said that live was better than the psn with its content, I said nothing about the ps3’s features. I attacked it because until it does become better or as good as live then its not worth the cash. The ps3 in itself is a nice console with lots of bells and whistles. The hdmi is better`on the ps3 and the blue ray player is great. I love Killzone, I just wish that there was more communication. Another thing cool guy I did not even say the word xbox , you did. So go on the psn and make a Japanese account and see what I am talking about. Thats what I want my psn experience to be like.
@sinn1
Who was that response actually aimed at?
P.S- You keep contradicting yourself ^^
RandyChimp are you serious it is extremely easy to make a Japanese account and Euro on the psn. I own all game systems because I am a true gamer. I also said nothing about the ps3’s features, nor did I even mention the word xbox or 360. Nice try though, I think the ps3 is an excellent console with good content. I love Killzone 2 it has some of the best graphics I have seen ever. I also like the blue ray player. The reason I post an attack on quality as you put it, is because I would not pay for psn. I will pay, and continue to pay for live because it is better in every way. So in conclusion it is not my fault you have no idea how to use your console, its your own stupidity.
You say that XBL is better than PSN in every way. You sir are an idiot. That statement is 100% false even to a basis fanboy like you. Not saying you are a complete fanboy just basis toward your 360. For starters XBL is not better than PSN in every way because it charges. Therefore PSN is better than XBL in price and that is just one of many.
No,Sony can’t let us pay to play because they’ve got like over 3 million users and I don’t want it to be like it’s an XBOX 360 where you have to pay. I wouldn’t even pay a cent for 10 secs.
i don’t think anyone in their right mind would pay a fee for PSN. it’s why im so harcore ps3 when it come to extreme fanboism
fee based psn is a bad move cause i dont want to pay for it… but if they are talking about rental subscriptions… that’s not a bad idea. and as some pointed out, if it subsidizes the free stuff we get right now i dont see it as a bad thing. just don’t screw us like microsoft screws their users:
Pay all that f’n money for a system, then pay for internet… then have to pay to play online??? does that f’n seem right to you? hell no.