Sony is the latest company to state that they're looking to jump on the "charge for online play" bandwagon, revealing that they are looking at their own ways to make a few extra bucks with a Project Ten Dollar-like scheme. Despite that, Sony Europe president Andrew House isn't as big a fan of further exploiting their customers by way of subscription services, like what Activision is discussing with their Call of Duty franchise:
"In terms of just a charge for basic online play, that's something that we have to talk about a lot more and we struggle with a little bit because we feel very vindicated and base a lot of the success of PSN today - a 70 per cent connection rate across consoles - on the fact that we've removed that major initial barrier to entry."It's only a matter of time before every big publisher goes with a charge for online access, though it's too early to tell if it has any definitive effect on revenue and/or sales. However, might I remind Sony that they already have this system in place?
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