Speaking in an interview at Games Convention in Leipzig with our friends at GamesIndustry.biz, Sony’s Worldwide Studios, President Shuhei Yoshida said that the company wanted to provide as many services to PlayStation 3 and PSP users as possible by exploring new business partnerships and new revenue models.
"We’re more open about approaching and bringing services in to PS3 and PSP," he explained. "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."
While talking about the importance of the VidZone deal being free to consumers, he revealed that the firm has been looking at the Internet as a good example of alternative funding methods.
"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," he said. "Not necessarily getting people to pay, but with advertising and so on.
"Those are things we’re looking at, and learning how we can provide a service without people having to pay - but we still get our operation running with funding from somewhere so that we can maintain the level of quality we want."
PlayStation 3 users will be able to access the free music video streaming service from Q1 2009, with the added bonus of creating playlists and porting them to the PSP.
By: GamesIndustry.bi
