Some (unofficial) info regarding PS3 Online.

From the latest US PSM.

Just two issues ago in an exclusive interview with PSM, the President of Sony CEA made it clear that his company has an ambitious new online strategy. However, with the exact details under lock and key, there’s been no clear picture of what Sony intends to do…until now. Cast aside any doubts and start gazing skywards, because that’s where Sony is aiming with plans that go far beyond simple leader boards and matchmaking – or even the PS3, for that matter.

All-Out Online War
As the yet-to-be-dated release of the PS3 crawls ever closer, Sony has just delivered final development hardware to U.S. game developers, several of which agreed to speak with PSM under conditions of anonymity. We can confirm that developers have already begun meetings with Sony’s support teams to make sure their games are compatible with the yet-unnamed PS3 online service. “It’s very real” one source tells us. “They [Sony] are dead serious about it. They’ve declared, and I quote, a “full-on-assault” on the latest version of Xbox Live.” Go ahead, now – jump of joy.
The Sony team tasked to creating the new online service began work on it shortly after the release of the PlayStation 2 Network Adapter. “They realized pretty early that they had too little, too late,” relays our source. “PS3 is a different story,” however. “They are committed to matching Xbox Live [on the Xbox 360] feature for feature and then some.” The online service is being designed to also work with the PSP and its games, think one, big PlayStation network!

That’s all I could find, does anyone have the mag, if so does the article say anything more?

Anyway, I think its pretty clear now that PS3 online wont be as.... simple as PS2 online. Hopefully the part with Sony matching Xbox Live feature for feature is true.

Interesting times ahead. I hope they reveal some official information soon, the PS3 media blockade has been going on for too long now.

[Living-In-Clip]

Can\'t be worse than the crapass online service they have now. They need to do a pay - to  - play system. Offer a community , patches and what not.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Can\'t be worse than the crapass online service they have now. They need to do a pay - to  - play system. Offer a community , patches and what not.

Agreed on the first part.

But I think it would be possible to make a system/service which could be free for basic things like playing online (non-MMO games), the extra bling bling such as movies, music, extra stuff for games would cost (this is the system they are going to use for PSP. Game upgrades, movies, music will cost, online play is free or its up to the games publisher.) Since most games are hosted on peoples own hardware and bandwidth (p2p - even Live does this) I see no need to charge people for that. Sony (or the publisher) only hosts the matchmaking server, when people start playing the game is usually hosted on someone’s console.

I think Sony would make enough money buy offering a pay for - Sony Pictures movies, Sony BMG music and game upgrades.. at least enough money to cover the cost of the system.