Its not like Sony is making the choice to not let this service come to PlayStation, Sony is obviously upset about EA'S DECISON to make this an excluisve to MS and decided to make this statment. I highly doubt Sony would not allow this service to be on there console seems more like EA's choice.

Sony deciding what's good for their consumers without giving them choice?

Sounds like a certain company in E3 2013.

I've played the best looking PS3 games. They were visuals at par with the 360. Also, those games didn't exist when PS3 was $599.

Once again, $599 was still more than most people wanted to pay... even if it had a Bluray. But that problem got fixed just like mandatory Kinect.

This is the first time since E3 2013 where I would say Sony is doing something wrong.

I dont know why you all citing the annual fee for this services? Do you really play all your games for full 12 months?
It is 4 €/ month and if I feel like playing some Fifa or madden in august/september when the seasons starts, or some mates come over to play some Fifa etc , I can just go and pay 1 month instead of forking out 70 € for the current year version or 30 -40 € for the last year version. Its still a bargain and I save A LOT of money. Because next months I might not want to play those games, so I dont pay.

And Im not afraid if other publishers follow EA. Even if Ubi decides to do a similar service and if it even has only 1 game that I want, Im gonna give them 4 € and rent the game for 1 month. This is really cheap.If I would rent the game from a like blockbuster store it would cost me 60 € for 30 days. Compare this to 4 €!

And in a month where lets say I want to play a game from EA, one from Ubi and one from Konami - well thats 12 € than, but still a lot cheaper than buying the 3 games especially in the digital scores.

So I dont think its up to Sony to decide what has value for me.They should finally reveal what their PS Now service is about, and if they stick with that high pricepoints.

Seriously Sony? Please don't mess up with your success. the EA Access got more interesting games for players than the free ps+ games. and it's not a mandatory subscription like the ps+ to get access to MP. So why would Sony decide in substitution of the customers ? that's a barrier to entry for EA there.

Also:

“PlayStation Plus memberships are up more than 200% since the launch of PlayStation 4, which shows that gamers are looking for memberships that offer a multitude of services, across various devices, for one low price."

It shows that gamers want to play online and you forced them to go through a paywall.....you culture stealers you ;)

Well, looking at it that way it doesn't sound too bad in general. Especially if it will really make publishers compete. I am just generally weary about he subscription heavy foucs everything seems to be gravitating to these days. And the more of them tehir becomes, the more worried I become.

I expect nothing less but a formal statement by Yoshida or House, retracting those words and appologizing to fans and EA.

I know that as a PS4 gamer I got screwed out of this deal, and the appoligy won't return it, but I think we all deserve a better explanation than, to paraphrase: "We know our customers are idiots who cannot decide for themselves, so we decided to make choices for them."

Just saying it doesn't fit into their corporate strategy would have been much better.

why would it force them to lower there prices its on ps so tech sony does not have competition on there console

I highly doubt this will affect the price in any way. As Sony just said, over a 200% increase in membership since PS4 launched.

If anything if the sales gap remains or grows, you're far more likely to see a price increase than a decrease.