Thread: PS3 Premium Online Services

I don't like the idea that you'd have to pay to have access to demos of PSN games. XBL was smart to require all their Arcade games have demos. I'm not going to throw down >$15 on a game I don't even know if I'll like.

Well this is what you get when you want to have the gaming experience. For that experience, you have to pay for the greed. I want to know is, who the hell is doing the thinking for sony with gaming? I can have all the free multiplay, but I have to pay to download a demo. That guy or girl needs a piss test.

You know the more I think about this the madder I get..I really dont mind paying monthly for stuff, as I have done it for YEARS with xbox....but 10 bucks a month? really? RIP OFF...especially for what they are maybe going to charge for (netflix without disk, and other stupid little things like a three year warranty).

Oh and Member only in game content is something spectacular too!

I thought about this more too and really think charging a premium service fee for game demo access will greatly inhibit Sony's ability to attract new, casual, non-traditional gamers like the Wii did so successfully.

Speaking from personal experience, I would have never put as much of my discretionary spending into games and accessories after I bought my PS3 two years ago as a BD player had I not been able to demo games merely to see if I was even capable of playing them. (I hadn't owned a game console since the first Atari and didn't game on PC.) Since then I've even started pre-ordering games from my favorite franchises (R&C, Uncharted) and video games are #1 on my B-day and x-mas gift list whereas two years ago I was more into getting CDs/DVDs.

The PSN network has been down in a lot of places this past few days. My nephew hasn't been able to get on since the 22nd.

Well that blows! All the new games people got for Christmas I guess? I haven't been home so I'm not sure.