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PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fee Slammed by Media
A recent fee introduced into the PlayStation Network for publishers of PS3 games has been seen by several media sources as a blow to publishers. The $0.16 per gb has been introduced to cover bandwidth costs of the network. Many media sources are spouting that this will ruin the network for free and paid publishers. I reality this fee is likely less then it would cost the publisher to host the content themselves and/or produce optical media such as a DVD or CD. The fee will be charged to free content publishers for only the first 60 days after release, while paid publishers will pay It on an ongoing basis.
What does this mean for you the end user? Almost nothing. The PS3 games will still be there, the free content won’t be going away anytime soon. The only difference one might see in their downloads is the price on some games will go up a fifty cents or something similar. The PlayStation network is still free when compared to the Xbox Live (which costs $49.99 US per year for the gold membership) is still a sweet deal.
on March 23rd 2009 at 4:22am
5 Comments
on March 23rd 2009 at 11:45am
Besides, who needs gold membership anyway. I know I don't, at least not yet.
on March 23rd 2009 at 4:10pm
I never play multiplayer games anyway. I only use the PlayStation network to download demos and add-ons and such.
As long as it doesn't affect me!
on March 23rd 2009 at 8:50pm
Ha, that's exactly what I can do with my free silver account on XBL as well, so hooray! Well, that and download arcade games as well of course. Or patches. Or watch trailers. Or whatever else.
on March 23rd 2009 at 9:28pm
We could also argue that you can do all that -and- play multiplayer games with the Wii for free! ...if you don't mind seeing the 'server is full' messages for an hour first. 
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Now if only I could afford a PS3, then maybe I could worry about such problems!
Xbox Live might be $50/yr, but the console was about $200 cheaper, so I got 4 years paid up to break even. 