Making hardware is expensive, making games is expensive, supporting servers etc. This is all money that is needed to be made before making a profit.
I for one are happy that Sony is charging for psn+ as a standard, because perhaps a stronger more financially stable Sony gaming devision will mean even more great things for the PS.
Just think they get 40 million plus subscribers, each year they will generate 1.6 Billion. This is too important for Sony to ignore imho. I agree with Zumnupy10, that Sony probably regretted it, thats why they brought out PS+ as a future system they could trial/test for PS4.








