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A new Playstation Network bandwidth fee is now making publishers think twice about what they offer Playstation 3 owners to download.

Before October 2008 publishers could add content to both Xbox Live and PSN without having to worry about any fee’s. Now however Sony have decided to apply a 16 cent fee for every gigabyte which has made PSN very unpopular amongst publishers.

Not only do developers now have to open a budget to create the demo or downloadable expansion, but now they have the extra costs of hosting on PSN to worry about, which could lead to a decline in the amount of demo’s and download content we see on the service.

One publishing company close to Sony has said that the new policy is an “Unwanted Burden”, ouch! Since the launch of the Playstation 3, Sony have consistently tried to out do the competition which is Xbox Live. But this latest move will lead to more criticism that the Playstation Network service is no match for Xbox Live as we will likely see much less content inside the Playstation Store.

Could this possibly be the reason that companies such as Bethesda are not bringing expansions to Playstation 3 users? one can only ponder.

Read more at: [Multiplayerblog]

Written By Gary A Swaby

Deeper than the words embedded in somebody's wedding ring

1. A.B. Frasier says:

   March 20, 2009 at 5:06 pm

   damn this is crazy shit…times are hard..and sony is doing what it HAS to do to stay above water…whats good for business is bad for the fans

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2. Playing Mantis says:

   March 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm

   This is bad. It shouldn’t be, but it is. Now, is this fee per gigabyte downloaded, or per GB of content that is uploaded to PSN?

   Sony should have really figured everything out before launch. It would be a hard sell for them to try and get ps3 owners to pay for online now.

   Hopefully this won’t seriously impact quality titles. In fact, it could make it where only good (or at least better) content is offered, as it will no longer be cost effective to shovel garbage if you have to pay to get rid of it.

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