Publishers forced to pay fee for PSN bandwidth

[nordlead]

thekitchensink said:

nordlead said:
This doesn't affect payed content, only free content. I think they should change their policy to be you pay the bandwidth fee for pay content. This would then pass the cost of bandwidth on to those who used it, but still provide incentive to provide free content and demos.

 

" That situation changed with the PS3 on October 1 of last year, when Sony implemented a 16 cents per Gigabyte fee to publishers for paid and free downloadable content, according to publishing sources familiar with Sony’s policy."

This doesn't directly affect a consumer's experience, though, unless they increase the price of paid content by 16 cents .  But really, Sony is hurting right now and they need every penny they can get.

I'm not saying they don't charge them, but it doesn't change the publishers mindset, they just pass the cost on. Instead of the DLC being $2. It is $2.50.