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Quite simply PSN can't ever get as popular as XBL because Microsoft has been paying through the nose to secure titles and research and all that other good stuff. The kind of spending that Sony just can't compete with. C'mon they spent 50 million dollars on 2 pieces of episodic content for GTA. Bought out an entire island in Second Life. Spent some 30 mill on the Immersion tech suit and bought a stake in the company along with that.

Besides that Sony couldn't even compete with the Xbox online features last gen, they are just playing catch-up now. I don't think it's possible for Sony to beat Microsoft there and if they do... then heck yea you will see a fee of some kind because they would have to have had gone on one heck of a spending spree to catch up. Either that or you just won't get an online game. That's one of the reasons for the fee, to encourage every single game to create online content for the system.