Sony has unveiled it's answer to Microsofts Xbox Live in an
announcement Wednesday by Phil Harrison, the president of worldwide studios for
Sony's PlayStation arm. According to this gentleman, the online
service will launch globally with the PlayStation 3 in November. Time will
tell of course!
 Code-named the PlayStation Network Platform, it will have a free
tier that connects users to the Internet and allows them to chat and send
e-mail to each other.
Microsoft's Xbox Live online
service also has a free tier but charges users one general fee '” about $50
a year '” to play each other. In Sony's service, subscription fees will be
tied to specific games.
Sony also will charge for
extra online content, such as downloads of game levels or
characters.
Harrison said he expects the
service to create communities of game players, and called the move to
online the most fundamental shift in game development the industry has
seen.
"In the future, we're going
to go through a radical change," he told attendees at the Game Developers
Conference. "We will be creating and servicing a network of game
communities," Harrison said. |
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Source: The Seattle Times
