The Live subscription may offset the cost of the network but the reason they charge is to make money above and beyond upkeep. Sony should too but they do not so they have to try to make it pay in other ways but do not make money from it and I believe they actually lose money.
Valve started steam as I recall to allow it to improve the games in a granular way and to also cut out the middle man and distribute directly to the end user. It may sound similar but in many ways it is a completely different model. In recent times this philisophy now extends to other game distributors and developers and even platforms (MAC).
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