Free while under contract is interesting, though for something like this you'd normally expect $100-$200 initial payment. Let's go with free though. If it was for 2 years $20 a month would cover the console, $480. So it would have to be more than that to include paperwork, processing, and profit. $30 month giving it a final cost of $720 and Sony can probably cover them for 2 years of plus while they are at it and even throw in a couple games for early adopters since PS+ won't be offering much for PS4 games at first.
If the console is expensive and that is what they are trying to do to make it more accessible that's fine, but a pay in full option needs to remain. Say it's $500 with no added games or PS+ months. This method could really let Sony jam a lot of hardware power into their system. Make that payment plan option a $200 down with $20 a month might be better and that comes out to $680. That's not a bad deal. Lessens the initial blow to that "magic" $200 number and throws in enough benefits to make the $500-$680 leap worth it. Because 2 games and $100 of PS+ thrown in is just about the same as buying it in full. It would allow for an expensive console to seem less expensive.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
