| Written by Colin McFedran Published 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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 |  RAMPAGE_64
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398 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.
 | Colin McFedran
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@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)
| RAMPAGE_64
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@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.
| Colin McFedran
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@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.
 | Jason LaFave
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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.
 | rtd
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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
 | Brian Kamm
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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.
 | Tayler Bell
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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.
| Brian Kamm
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@Tayler Bell: and to go along with your worst case scenario, fewer demos that could warn people away from crap without paying a dime.
That's actually kinda cool. As long as PSN access is still free, it sounds good to me.