ChichiriMuyo said:
SpartenOmega117 said:
Well there is a small possibility that sales might increase if Sony started charging for PSN. Many people falsely assume that Xbox live is a huge leap over PSN just because Microsoft charges $60 for it. They think that just because they are paying for it, xbox live just has to better. In reality though PSN and Xbox live are very similar give or take a few feature like party chat which isnt added just because PS3 hardware can't handle it. If Sony starts charging for PSN and does revamp the service a little, then sales might actually increase.
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I honestly don't understand how charging for online would help them. As it is, Sony is way behind Microsoft in terms of online gaming presence and charging for the (slightly) inferior service isn't going to make things better. The perception really isn't "Live is better because I pay for it" so much as "Live is better because that's where my firends are". That won't change simply by charging for the service. If they can develop a rich set of tools to make PSN+ a better deal, such as the things available on Live that they don't have yet, then they could earn a little more money from that. As it stands, however, it's not likely that they can even afford to charge for online unless it is dramatically better than Live. They are losing on the online front because MS developed their service first and have managed to maintain a lot of users who believe that they have to keep paying to make their previous investment worthwhile (a common fallacy). Really, the best thing they could do is make PSN as close to equal to Live as possible before the generation ends so they have a chance of taking consumers back next gen with a free service as good as Live.
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Microsoft charges us for third party servers. The extra ten dollar hike was because Kotick of Activision wanted a cut because of how big COD was on Live. Look it up.
