Going by the working title "PlayStation
Network Platform," Sony has announced that the basic level of its online service will be free (at least at
first).While the company's "Live-killer" will readily support the PS3 at launch in November, it is not known to what extent the "PNP" (er, "PSNP"?) 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. Hello, 360... More P(S)NP pics follow.
See also:
- PS3 worldwide in November
- Watch Impress's page of announcement info and
slides
- PS3 Live-killer titled PlayStation HUB, PS3 in September
