While Microsoft continues to charge for its online service, Sony has remained adamant that the PS3 is the place to be for those who don't like paying for things. Claiming that Sony is keen on providing as many free services as possible, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has been talking about the process of offering these services.
"We're more open about approaching and bringing services in to PS3 and PSP," explained Yoshida. "We can't support all the needs of the consumer and there are great companies providing services on the PC already - so we're very open to provide the opportunity to those companies to reach our user base as well.
"... We like to provide as many services as possible for free - we already provide our network access for gameplay for free - and the interesting thing about the network side and the Internet business is that there's a variety of revenue sources. Not necessarily getting people to pay, but with advertising and so on."
Sounds good to me. Personally, I can't wait for Sony to become more competitive with its online services. Hopefully the company can eventually force Microsoft's hand and we can forget about this ridiculous subscription business. Okay, maybe that's a bit too hopeful, but since MS already shoves adverts on its service and is trying some frankly pathetic methods of making XBL Gold worth the money (holding demos back from Silver members is ludicrous) I wouldn't mind seeing Sony smack its rival down a little.
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7:13 AM on 08.28.2008
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Now if only SCEE would sort itself out and be more like SCEA, it'd be happy days indeed.
Well if Sony manages to sell more consoles this generation despite they early lead for 360, you'd think MS would try to figure out what they are doing wrong. Nickel and diming Xbox owners (not just on subscriptions either) leaves a bad after taste. Unfotunately, Sony still has a way to go before PSN is on the same level as Live.
I just hope if they start advertising that its more of a subliminal side bar thing instead of in your face pop ups and such. We'll see though. I'm thinking most of that advertising is going to happen once Home is released.
Thanks for pointing out the XBL Gold bullshit too. Sounds pretty scandalous to me, but then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about. Not hating on the 360, if thats your thing its cool, just saying Microsoft is pretty fucking shady in my books still.
I <3 my PS3 so much. I weeeeally weeeeally do.
I'm all for supporting the hardware you enjoy, but do they realize that it is OK to complain about the things you don't like? Just ask us PS3 owners - that's how we got ourselves in game XMB, took a while, and lots of bitching, but we did it.
I have yet to pay for GOLD because I play TF2 on my computer anyway for free and more content.
The fact they still cram the service chock full of crappy advertisements for stuff I don't care about is even worse. Paying for Gold should remove all ads from Live or at least give you the choice to remove them yourself. Or have them more dynamically update to your game playing habits or something that makes them more worthwhile.
As it stands... it sucks, but I stomach it because I wanna play online with my friends (none of which have PS3s).