PS3 to support free online gaming, and Sony plans e-distribution service

Sony's online gaming service will likely feature free online play, according to comments from SCE president Ken Kutaragi. Article also talks briefly about Sony's content distribution plans.

One thing in that article that interests me is that they are not going to charge for people to actually play the games, while the Xbox360 forces you to pay for that right. This one characteristic may swerve there chances in the console market, though there are other factors, if the other elements of the online are really bad, it may still fail. Though it is too soon to really see, with all indications, minus this, Sony is going to have a shaky start with the PS3. What they really need to do to bring more confidence to the console is to reveal some more info about it, so people are relying on rumors or secret sources, so the rumors dont go flying out of proportion. Because of there secrecy, most of what we know about the console, is mainly rumors, and stuff exrapolated from interviews with people who work with Sony. What we need is some more offical announcements, as well as them finally releasing the beta kits to developers to give them enough time to make high quality games for the system, in order for the PS3 to overcome the many hurdles, including its price, that it has now.

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