Sony has announced that the basic level of its online service (just like Xbox Live and Nintendo WiFi) will be free (at least at first). The new service, given a working title “PlayStation Network Platform”, will readily support the PS3 at launch in November 2006. However, it is not known to what extent the new service will support the PS2 and PSP.
What are supported, however, are voice/video chat, messaging, matchmaking, ranking, game data uploading/downloading, shopping, content downloading, micro payments, subscriptions, and entitlement (i.e., user access) management. All of this will be tied together with a Live-like user login ID/handle name.
Will Sony new service meet up the expectation or even surprise us with more extra features? Will it be a “Live-Killer” as many has suggested it will or will not be?
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