Sony to charge monthly multiplayer fee for PS4

[Fulcrum29]

Japan - Sony plans to charge a monthly fee of $9.99 in the United States and €6.99 in Europe for playing multiplayer online games on its PlayStation 4 (PS4) console scheduled to debut this month, the Nikkei business daily reported without citing sources.

Multiplayer games can be played for free on PlayStation 3.

Sony plans to charge 500 yen a month for multiplayer games in Japan when the new console debuts in February, the Nikkei said.

Sony plans to make PS4 more attractive by including more social networking functions, such as the ability to chat with fellow players, the business daily reported.

Microsoft's Xbox One will also launch this month.

Link: http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Sony-to-charge-monthly-multiplayer-fee-for-PS4-20131105

I see that there are many unhappy SA campers... Will probably be around R150 p/m here?

 

[Orihalcon]

The source of this is unconfirmed btw.

And from E3 already they have stated quite clearly that you'd need a PS Plus account. Which costs $59.99 for the year.

No idea where these $9.99 rumours are coming from. Until officially stated by Sony I will ignore this.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I see that News24 cannot copy paste Reuters articles correctly:

This must be added in-between:

The $9.99 monthly option was announced by the company in June this year, a spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment America told Reuters.

In addition to the monthly option, the company will continue to offer its online multiplayer games service at an annual membership fee of $49.99 or less than $5 a month, the spokeswoman said.

Link: http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/sony-ps-idINDEE9A40EC20131106

 

[Fudzy]

Lol News24 fail. I would be surprised if the costs had jumped that much. I assume Xbox Live subs will stay the same?

 

[Fulcrum29]

Lol News24 fail. I would be surprised if the costs had jumped that much. I assume Xbox Live subs will stay the same?

This is currently a worldwide debate, everyone waiting on Sony to provide the details, the gaming arena believes that Nikkei got it wrong since they did not cite any sources.