| Kyuu said: When consumers could have supported the ambitious, more reliable PS3, with its free online service, and full backwards compatibility with the two greatest gaming systems of all time next to the SNES... they were instead singing happy songs to celebrate Sony's doom because a couple of Sony representatives got a little arrogant.. Paid online is the natural extension to the great success of X360 vs the relative failure of PS3. |
Let's be honest. Gamers used to downplay PSN saying that Live was superior because it was paid, that you got what you paid for. People also voted with the wallet, if gamers had flocked to the PS3, MS would probably had made theirs free too.
But since free online not only sees pointless to get consumers while giving you a bad rep, why not profit like crazy?
I guess people simply don't care. It's 50 bucks a year, it really is hard to see it make anyone jump ship.
I always said that paid PS+ would result in 2 things: the service would not improve anyway and the "free" games would be worse (before they had to convince you to pay, offering better games). 100% spot on.
The only improvement PS+ had was increasing the cloud save limit. But that only happened because PS4 saves are dozens of MB (PS3 was always under 1MB), so the previous limit could not hold more than a dozen saves.
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