PS3 Online Services will be for FREE!

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Author: Neko-Sama
Posted on 06/16/2006
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Remember the time you bough FFXI and were sad to know you had to pay a monthly fee to play it? Well it's over now!

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ony's President (Ken Kutaragi), has revealed his company's strategy on online PS3 services. The Japanese consumer electronics giant will not charge for the basic online services which will be available to all customers completely free while the financial model will mainly rely on charges for content downloaded through the service.

Speaking to the Japanese tech website, PC Impress Watch, Sony's President made it clear that Sony has planned for a competitive online policy stating: “You can't charge money for network matching and other basic services. These things are just taken for granted on the PC.”

As with most online services, the PS3's capabilities will be harnessed by Sony in order to deliver content that will tempt users into a purchase. Kutaragi was clear that this has been his company's plan all along, “We really wanted to do this with the PS2.But now Apple has realised a successful e-distribution program, it's about time we made our move, too.”

Other game companies, such as Microsoft have paved the way for online gaming services and now gamers are to discover what form of improvement XboX live has, so does Nintendo's. Imagine playing Final Fantasy 13 online for free? Who could resist right?

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