PSN Subscription Fee Possible?
Posted by Colin McFedran at 2009-05-19 23:37:40
Tagged: [Rumor] [PlayStation Network]



Rumblings are that Sony may be considering a PSN subscription fee.

Not a subscription fee for access and online (ala Xbox Live) but a fee that gives you all you can eat access to PSN games be they for PSP or PS3. This isn't a new idea (Sony Asia polled its customers in early 2008 about such a thing) but scuttlebutt is that they are asking AGAIN. Hmmm.

$10 dollars per month for 5 or 6 games out of the complete library? Games must 'check in' to see if you are a current subscriber or they just don't play. Maybe bump it to $20 and you get movie streaming to boot?

What do you think? Would you be willing to pay a fee to get access to all PSN games (esp considering if PSPgo! is real all future PSP games will be ON PSN).

Update: PS3Center has posted the relevant questionnaire that I've been referencing.




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10 comments:

Offline Mike Hartnett
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2009-05-19 23:51:29
That's actually kinda cool. As long as PSN access is still free, it sounds good to me.
Offline RAMPAGE_64
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2009-05-20 00:24:11
I realy dont get this, why would they make you pay a fee to have all the psn games on the psn it realy dosent make sence can someone explain.
Offline Colin McFedran
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2009-05-20 00:28:03
@RAMPAGE_64: You pay a fee so that you can RENT say 5 games per month from the PSN...since Sony is going digital distribution and you don't really OWN your content anymore (ie...you can't sell it like a disc) a lot of people would be interested in renting their games electronically (as opposed to gamefly etc)
Offline RAMPAGE_64
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2009-05-20 00:41:30
@Colin McFedran: Hmm i dont like the sound of it becuse i cant pay for a fee every month, i would rather have it how it is now. How can this make it any better.
Offline Colin McFedran
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2009-05-20 00:45:26
@RAMPAGE_64: The idea is that it is an option. You could still get your demos and pay for individual titles like you do now OR you could pay a fee and have access to 5 or so titles per month.
Offline Jason LaFave
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2009-05-20 01:00:13
Looking at it as a rental service, I could see it working. My first impression, after reading your description, was that type of service where your library of "owned" titles was yours, only so long as you maintained a paid account. Those are utter shite.
Offline rtd
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2009-05-20 07:09:00
since i spend over ten dollars a month probably on games and movies i dont think this sounds like a bad idea... at the same time though im happy with how things work now cos its nice and simple and it works
Offline Brian Kamm
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2009-05-20 07:51:16
If Sony moves forward with this, I'd be curious to see how this impacts pricing for "owned" content, as well as the availability of demos.
Offline Tayler Bell
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2009-05-20 11:23:30
I think this could be good or bad, it all depends on your perspective. I'm not opposed to paying a small fee every month that gives me total access to all games on the PSN, however a system like this may not encourage developers to make decent titles and we could end up with a whole lot of shitty games.
Offline Brian Kamm
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2009-05-20 18:24:02
@Tayler Bell: and to go along with your worst case scenario, fewer demos that could warn people away from crap without paying a dime.
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