It’s that time again, E3 is less than a month away and all us gaming nerds are excited! But that’s only half the story.
For a few months now there have been rumours of a PSN premium service [SonyInsider] that would enhance the overall usability of the PSN. Premium features could include premium customer service, extended warranty, access to beta games, cross-game voice chat, a token wagering system which can be used to purchase free content, discounts on all store purchases, cloud storage, online music service, 1 hour trials on full games, *deep breath* and a whole crap load more. Sounds pretty good right? The price? $70 a year.
That’s quite a bit of content there for that price. Now as a non-360 user, I’m not sure how this stacks up to the Live premium services but it sounds like a fantastic deal to me. More recent rumours [engadget] have shown that the service may be announced at Sony’sE3 conference. Could this be a bad move for Sony that has stated over and over that their online services would always be free? They’re not taking anything away from the current PSN services, just adding more bonus content onto it. Even more important, what regions would get these services? Up here in Canada, we still don’t have the video network yet. Australia got it before us…AUSTRALIA! But I guess they should get something if they can’t get a violent video game. What I’m saying is that Sony needs to release it everywhere at the same time or not at all.
