kumagawa said:
LOL no if you play CoD or anyother 3rd party game on a Xbox or Playstation all the servers are owned by the publisher, Microsoft and Sony do nothing except make money charging you to connect your console to your ISP.
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The hosting of the game is done on the servers of the publisher. Consoles do not just connect you to the publishers servers ala PC.
The management of ancillary features such as recording, managing freinds list, trophies, etc... go through Sony/MS's servers. Even the match making that allows you to join games of those on your freind's list routes through Sony/MS's servers.
PSN gives this away for free on PS3 and Vita, but for the PS4, all games can be constantly streamed, allow player input, and some game can be played through streaming. All of the PS4's new network features must be paid for. And they are using the Multiplayer fee to redirect the costs.
All the third parties have to do is host their games.
Its not even comparable.
Not to mention that the legacy network features are being supported by the online fee. Multiplayer being free would jeopardize a lot of Sony's Network Ecosystem. I don't like it but I understand why its like this now.