It's funny.... you really don't see press release's like this from Nintendo or MS...

But... I guess they don't have to..

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Don't Pay For Xbox Live, Pay For Designer Furniture Instead

Continuing their recent preoccupation with sending out ill-advised press releases, Sony yesterday told the world how to best spend $50. You know, the $50 so many of you spend on Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.

With the PlayStation Network being free and all, Sony figure that the $50 you're spending on Microsoft's online service is $50 wasted. Why not put it to better use on the items on the following list, meticulously hand-picked by Sony's most frugal, thoughtful PR types?

Rather than paying a $50 subscription fee that competitors charge for on-line services, PlayStation Network users could put that money towards a variety of content.

* PAIN ($9.99)
* Elefunk ($4.99)
* Guitar Hero Classic Rock Track ($6.25)
* LittleBigPlanet™ Metal Gear Solid® - Level Kit ($5.99)
* Episode of Afro Samurai | Season 1 ($1.99)
* The Dark Knight Movie ($14.99)
* Samurai Sword Rack, Diesel Tiamallo Blue Hooded Top, Ligne Roset Alster Chair for PlayStation Home ($4.47)

-or-

* Super Street Fighter® II Turbo HD Remix ($14.99)
* Burnout™ Paradise (Full Retail Game) ($19.99)
* The Hoff Character for PAIN ($1.99)
* LittleBigPlanet™ Ryu of Street Fighter® II ($1.99)
* Robot Trooper and Basketball Boots for PlayStation Home ($.98)
* Savage Moon ($9.99)

Sony, we appreciate the fact we don't have to pay for the use of the PlayStation Network. And appreciate that, since we're not paying for it, you have to get your money back via other means. But telling people to forgo Xbox Live's mostly excellent multiplayer service in exchange for a Ligne Roset Alster Chair and some basketball boots probably isn't the best way to get your point across.

Sony wants you to buy games, not Xbox Live [Ars Technica]

Hey, they've made over a million bucks off Diesel clothes and Ligne Roset furniture!

Too many people have money lying around...

^yet complain about having to pay for an online service?

I get where they're going by listing the games, but at least they only had one Home item per list :P

I probably would have fell out of my chair in laughter if the lists were filled with more Home items.

This is probably not the best way for them to illustrate this point.

Edit: Their pitches always remind me of poor old Gil.

My whole take on the"pay for online" is that games this gen are just too expensive to have to pay another 50 dollars a year,just to enjoy all the features in most games.

So,how about...i dont spend any money online(unless of course there is an awesome game that interests me).

i don't know, it seems to make sense to me.

don't pay for a service - pay for games (the home item is kind of lame... but at least it's cheap).

It's just funny seeing them recommend buying items from Home considering people's current opinions of it.

Distorted title...


They list a list of games (obvious) but noo, let's not focus on that.

Let's focus on the fact that they try to get people into home too. Yeah, how dare they.


This is just bashing for the sake of bashing.

Even if you take out the home-attributes, both lists give you some 40 dollars' worth of gaming attributes or just plain games.


BS article and complete cherrypick.

Very bad sony, very bad....