Several NPG SKUs at launch, only one with 3G

[kafar]

jarrod said:

kafar said:

Cunning_Linguist said:

This is why Sony pisses me off sometimes. Why not put 3g in all sku's? Developers won't take advantage of features only available to a portion of the potential userbase.

3G is just a network interface. developers don't care if the gamer has 3G or not. they can just assume every NGP has network connectivity.

Pretty much.  It's like arguing not all 360 devs will use the HDD due to the Core/Arcade SKUs, or not all PS3 devs will use network support due to the 40GB lacking WiFi.

That said, going off Sony's comments, it does sound like the 3G options will be more limited than the regular online infrastructure (the term "asynchronous multiplayer" has been thrown out).

the location-based applications will be limited, which, I think, is the only advantage 3g offers over wifi (to some extend, as Sony can know which city you live by ip address too). The application is cool. but if 3G has a monthly cost, i won't bother getting it.

Edit: unless i can use NGP as a phone.... that is really cool then.

Edit2: oops. sry, i didn't read your post carefully. yes. it seems 3G has it's limitation for online play. i bet it's caused by the limited bandwidth between 3g privider and PSN. it will be extremely cool if we can play online everywhere though