Hirai – Current PSN service to remain free, subs for "premium content and s

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waron said:

you pay 50$ for gold because MS hold servers for all multiplayer/coop games from all the publishers so you will be able to still play Modern Warfare 2 even when Xbox 4 will be released.
on ps3 publishers have to hold servers for their own games. so considering the fact that they also pay sony for transfer from psstore and sony receives fees from every item sold on psstore, this is weird.

Actualy you pay 50$ for Microsoft so they can use YOUR bandwidth and YOUR x360 console to host a game.