Pachter predicts Playstation Plus success
It’s fine, Sony. There’s no need to worry about how many will sign up for Playstation Plus. It’ll be a success. Because Michael Pachter says so.
E3 2010 saw Sony unveil Playstation Plus, the paid-for subscription service coming soon to PSN. For $50-a-year, PS3 owners will get access to free games, avatars, themes, demos, and betas. I think it’s a good value offering, but not everyone has been bowled over by the features on offer.
Still, industry analyst Michael Pachter thinks Playstation Plus will take off, but it’ll take a while to do so. According to GZ, Pachter told Gametrailers:
I think that every enhancement to PlayStation Network going forward is going to be for PlayStation Plus so they’re always going to give you basic online gameplay. I think when they start adding tournaments and new types of achievement systems it’s going to be for PlayStation Plus members only and they’ll get a very slow migration over to the $50 a year. I think PlayStation Plus will work. You’ll get one million subscribers this year, two million next year, three million the next year and it’ll just slowly build.
So, Pachter basically believes that while Playstation Plus will prove to be a success, it’ll take a lot more features than there are currently to persuade people to sign up. And he may have a point.
Thankfully, Sony is committed to keeping the basic online gaming service free for all. Unlike Microsoft, which charges Xbox 360 owners for the privilege.
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June 20th, 2010
I’m so disappointed with PS+.
I was expecting a raft of new services, movie subscriptions, maybe an mp3 store, cross game chat, parties, etc, etc…and we get is simply what amounts to pay some money for extra content.
Such a wasted opportunity.
June 20th, 2010
So no cross game chat?
June 20th, 2010
At least the PSN is still free to play games without plus hey?
June 20th, 2010
I was also expecting a movie streaming service but overall PSN+ offers enough to justify the price since only online play and PSN itself remain free.
June 20th, 2010
Cross game chat is supposed to be a free service, from what I’ve heard.
June 20th, 2010
Aren’t the “free” games pre selected?
June 20th, 2010
so?…..is this another attempt from you to pull another lame troll argument? seriously give up
June 20th, 2010
Calling someone a troll when you post in more articles than them is quite funny lol
I was asking if the games are pre selected. I’ll take your agressive response as a yes
June 20th, 2010
You shouldn’t assume the response is a yes. Assuming just makes an ass out of you (see what I did there?).
June 20th, 2010
lmaoo….
June 20th, 2010
CON = POS
June 20th, 2010
CON what is your pic?
June 21st, 2010
Looks like a flag.
June 21st, 2010
Probably gay pride or something like that.
June 21st, 2010
LMAO @ ncaissie
June 21st, 2010
hey guys,
look how crazy Echochrome 2 look with move support
http://kotaku.com/5567475/echochrome-ii-looks-like-the-right-move-for-playstation-motion-control/gallery/
June 21st, 2010
@ ncaissie: I know it’s a flag mate, just wondering if it’s Al Queda or something lol.
June 21st, 2010
That looks like the flag of Jordan if I am not mistaken.
June 21st, 2010
Try again… the Palestine Flag.
June 21st, 2010
@OLD
“just wondering if it’s Al Queda or something lol”
Fuck off you BNP supporting racist scumbag.
June 21st, 2010
@OLD
“just wondering if it’s Al Queda or something lolâ€
“Fuck off you BNP supporting racist scumbag.”
Thats coming from a piece of filth that relishes and celebrates the deaths of human beings. Being called a scumbag is royalty compared to the likes you CON.
June 21st, 2010
Celebrates the deaths of human beings????
June 21st, 2010
“and we get is simply what amounts to pay some money for extra content.”
The key question is, is it more than XBox Live Gold currently offers? The answer is a resounding yes. Microsoft still needs to play catch up on this one, because ESPN (for only certain ISP’s) sure as hell isn’t going to cut it. I certainly see this as a success for Sony, especially if Microsoft doesn’t counter with something more enticing.
June 21st, 2010
http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/06/17/microsofts-xbox-live-is-making-boatloads-on-virtual-goods/
Looks like LIVE is kicking ass
June 21st, 2010
@CON
look at CarlB’s comment above..
June 21st, 2010
seriously when will the west just nuke the middle east. . .im getting bored waiting for it to happen
June 21st, 2010
“seriously when will the west just nuke the middle east. . .im getting bored waiting for it to happen”
I think something is going to happen in North K to bull the attention from the Middle east first.
June 21st, 2010
Carl, The problem is MS doesn’t like to give anything for cheap or free.
June 21st, 2010
“seriously when will the west just nuke the middle east. . .im getting bored waiting for it to happen”
You’re a fucking moron.
June 21st, 2010
LMAO you can’t talk bad about CON terrorist brothers in the Middle East liquid.
June 21st, 2010
CON
did you see CarlB’s comment? give up all that trash talking you’ve been doing against PSN+
CarlB, who usually favors the 360, see the value that PSN+ offers…you’re just used to take it from behind
June 21st, 2010
@Roca
And did you see mine? Lol LIVE made $1.25 billion last year and PSN+ is playing catch up
June 21st, 2010
nice to see you admiting your not the only one getting rape…
did you know how much money Sony makes by charging developers bandwith fees and by advertisements and spaces in Home…
oh, one more question…how much of those 1.25 billion did you personally make? (LOL)
I think CarlB just shut you up and ended your PSN+ rants so now you’re changing the subject.
June 21st, 2010
another fellow soldier make CON look like a fool..give it up man!
June 21st, 2010
How so? LIVE is by far the better service.
June 21st, 2010
lmao…you guys consider it better because online play is restricted to paid subscribtion…when by paying for online play, the service suddenly seems alot better because it lets you do something you could not do before.
did you see CarlB’s comment about the 2 services…it comes from a guy who favors the 360 more often than not which is more creditable than your daily rants…why you keep trolling about it?
June 21st, 2010
Trolling? Really????? You’re in every single article in this site lol pot, kettle and black spring to mind! HA HA
Cross game chat and party chat along make LIVE the better service. All of the features on top of that such as sky, espn, the hd streaming movies just make it better still
June 21st, 2010
alone*
June 21st, 2010
“alone*”
What’s this a spelling mistake? You are not aloud to make spelling mistakes on the net! fuckin troll
June 21st, 2010
ESPN is spelt in major case letters and proper names should start with a capital letter.
free online + year long worth of free games, DLCs, PS1 games, iPhone games, betas, avatar and themes for a fix price makes Live looks outdated ripoff service. plus iTV, Vidzone, Mubu, BBC’s iPlayer, MLB TV and more is a much better value
June 21st, 2010
Check this out:
http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?40684-Xbox-fanboy-experiences-360-Slim-overheating-warns-others
June 21st, 2010
But Roca! Online play is Added value. After all when you buy a game it does not tell you the # players and the # online players.
It’s simply faulty advertising. “Especially” games like MAG.
June 21st, 2010
Then again you can’t expect someone who favours terrorism to think rationally.
June 21st, 2010
lmao..you’re right
with the money he’s been paying for Gold, he could have bought another console already and play online for free and enjoy better exclusives and innovative titles..
June 21st, 2010
I love how you act hard online CON but the truth is if we were to cross paths I would fuck you up. Obviously you would disagree but I don’t give a fuck.
And you do celebrate human deaths you racist fucker, your always happy when a Soldier dies.
June 21st, 2010
Oh look who it is posting in a dead post like the big man thinking I wouldn’t see it. I gave you my address 3 months ago and you did fuck all about it so shut the fuck up. I even told you to bring your friends over as I have friends who would love nothing better than to tear them apart. Call me a racist if it makes you feel better youre the one who supports BNP
Saw something in the news today about 300 faggot brits getting killed by guys in sandals. Yeah real hard men!
June 21st, 2010
A dead post? I only seen your fuck you comment about 2 hours ago so I’m not gonna reply to it in a different thread retard. The lights ain’t on up there are they CON? Also if you think I or anyone else on the planet is sad enough to fly to another country just to stamp on your head then you must think your more important than you actually are.
I would appreciate your name though, you never ever seem to give that one up, I don’t think your address is real. Also why the fuck would I use my friends? Were not in school retard, I don’t need people to fight my battles, might be how you do it but I don’t need to rely on other people.
Also 300 brave men(who are better than scum like you) killed and a good few thousand of them have bin killed by us and they don’t have to operate under any Rules of Engagement and we still killed thousands. Was your mum one of them? I do hope so.
Now it’s stupid to think I would fly to you just to knock you out, if you were as near as Birmingham then a different story …lemme know if you fly over.
June 21st, 2010
then he says he is not a terrorist
June 21st, 2010
Seriously though give me your name
June 22nd, 2010
James O’Callaghan……..not that you’re gonna do fuck all about it cus you know you’d be ripped to pieces if you ever set foot in west Belfast. We can fucking smell the fear of you cunts.
Oh and speaking of 300 don’t forget the 705 faggot soldiers who died over here too
June 22nd, 2010
I’ll go there and slap you around and no one will do shit about….ppl like you are a bunch of pussies
June 22nd, 2010
LOL @Roca
June 22nd, 2010
Con is such an idiot.
June 22nd, 2010
@CON
why do you have a Palestine flag? Aren’t you from Ireland?
June 22nd, 2010
@Phranc
he couldn’t find the Gay pride flag.
June 22nd, 2010
silly goose. His boyfriend was using it as a gag.
June 22nd, 2010
LOL
June 22nd, 2010
And yet I lived in N.Ireland for a year and was patrolling all over it as well. So you finally gave your name up lmao …thanks! wait out.
June 22nd, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000110223149&ref=search
OMG Is that you! PMFSL!!! HAHA ya fat bastard
June 23rd, 2010
PMSL! You can smell fear? No mate, that’s just the shit smell of N. Ireland. Do you know what you sound like saying you can smell fear? lmfao! You were bullied in school right?
June 23rd, 2010
@Phranc
Ireland has had a big fallout with Israel in the last few weeks.
@OLD
Wow Facebook search, I expected better from you. And no I’m not Will Farrell’s twin.
“Wait out”?????? Like you’re going to fucking do anything.
“patrolling all over”
You mean hiding in palace barracks lol or else helping to demiliterise the majority of the bases here! Where were you patrolling? Go on entertain me! In Belfast??? On the Falls road?? Such a bullshitter!
June 23rd, 2010
Yeah I got sent to Ireland just to become a camp soldier …exactly why I joined, retarded ain’t ya. Of course it was a fb search and that is blatantly you lol.
CON you actually think your pretty tough don’t you? No idea why, maybe because your from a country where they like to petrol bomb each other as a daily sport. Can’t imagine you were in the thick of it, you seem the type who reads everything he knows in the papers or on google.
Your quiet a sad little man CON, I’m not saying I feel sorry for you, it just maybe better if you were put out of your misery. Who knows hey.
June 23rd, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/4991885/Murdered-soldiers-bodies-flown-home-from-Northern-Ireland-without-ceremony.html
These two faggots were flown outta here as fucking freight! Some loyalty your army shows you! HA HA HA!
June 23rd, 2010
Now your resorting to laughing at dead human beings, Heroes who are worth so much more than you could hope to be. Must of hit a nerve.
June 23rd, 2010
If facebook is the extent of your intelligence check lol go ahead add that guy as a friend! By the way you know who I am and you know where I live yet you still talk shit.
June 23rd, 2010
Just wish I could have played with the bubble rap! Dead human beings???? Fucking cowardly brit soldiers.
June 23rd, 2010
Yes soldiers are cowards, they so cowardly that they actually go to war, brave people wouldn’t do that would they?
So your admitting that the fat person is you? If not then I don’t know who you are. Just a picture is all I’m asking.
June 23rd, 2010
they’re so*
June 23rd, 2010
What a picture to wank over?? LOL
There are no other James O’Callaghans from Clonard Gardens in Belfast so you’ve no more fucking excuses. I’d love nothing more for you to come over here so I could smash your fucking face in but you’re all fucking talk!
“Yes soldiers are cowards”
Except for the british, they’re real fucking heroes!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/10320609.stm
June 23rd, 2010
Very delusional mate. Smash my face in? LMFAO! OMG Your a funny feller. Maybe you could if I weren’t extremely fit and have been boxing for 13 years and also box for the Army. But yeah maybe you could get a lucky one in with your chubby hands lol. I swear your a child or something. I honestly believe your just a school kid who likes the act the big man.
Also what’s with the wank over your picture joke? Are you that worried of me knowing what you look like that you have to resort to childish jokes?
Such a waste of skin Jimmy boy.
June 23rd, 2010
“Maybe you could if I weren’t extremely fit ”
Now who’s the fucking child? Lol boxing is a dying sport in england from what I hear but Belfast is a city where it’s alive and well. You have a lot of assumptions about me. Why don’t you come over? After all you’re extremely fit lol.
June 23rd, 2010
Didn’t say I box for England retard, I said I box for the Army. Nowt wrong in being confident in my fitness level, I suppose only fat people would find that funny.
June 23rd, 2010
BTW I need a picture ffs! How the fuck do I know what you look like.
June 23rd, 2010
Didn’t say you boxed for england either…..retard
Fuck the picture. James O’Callaghan, Clonard Gardens Belfast. You’re fucking stalling.
I don’t exactly know which fag you are in your gravatar pic but pretty sure if we arrange a time and a place I will.
June 23rd, 2010
But we both know that I ain’t going to fly to Ireland just to take back the skin that your wasting. You hat soldiers so much, come here. We’re both just going to say the same, but the fact is you DO fly to England, in Birmingham to be precise, so how about instead of some one wasting money for a flight, we’ll just wait until you have to come here for a specific reason, then I think I’ll wind your neck in for ya.
Obviously you’ll say I’m flapping, you can think what you want but I’ve been to war 3 times, so a little piss ant like you is fuck all. There’s no way in hell I’m wasting money just to take you down a few pegs. So tell me honestly when your due back over here? Because I know for a fact you’ll fly to B’ham again.
June 23rd, 2010
you hate*
June 23rd, 2010
In fact I even swear on my little baby nieces life that I WILL meet you when you come here because I’m fucking DYING to meet you.
June 23rd, 2010
I do be over in Birmingham from time to time actually…Dudley to be precise but that’s with my boss on business.
“But we both know that I ain’t going to fly to Ireland”
I’ve known that for a long time. First it’s the address. Then it’s the name. Then……..nope I need a picture. Finally when I call you out anyway you piss your pants and do a full U turn.
You’ve made such a song and dance in the past about wanting to track me down and if only you knew where I was. 3 months ago I gave you my address and you completely backed down and you’re doing the same again.
Faggot.
June 23rd, 2010
lol yeah whatever so when you here?
June 23rd, 2010
Probably November.
So what about all the once you find out where I am bullshit??? lol
I’ll fucking bait you into coming over here, don’t worry. Didn’t you have a really good friend that died in army??? Imagine that faggot bleeding to death lol imagine my face laughing
June 23rd, 2010
Really November? That far away??? Yeah I’ve had many good friends die and the fungus between each toe is worth more than you. I’ll just imagine your face what it’ll look like when I’m finished with you. That’ll do me
June 23rd, 2010
So just so I’m clear……after all bullshit about how you’re gonna track me down and the demands about where I live and who I am…….you puss out anyway?
June 23rd, 2010
Puss out? OMFG! You really are up your own arse! There’s about 4 different reasons I’m not gonna fly out there:
-Your not worth it
-I’m not wasting my money on you
-I’m not even allowed to leave the country without the Armies permission
-Your going to come here anyway so why go out my way
Just so were clear, I would never back down from a pussy piece of shit like you, trust me when you are in this country you will regret every single fucking thing you have said about the troops. I am going to hurt you like I have never hurt any one, seriously you have no idea what you have got yourself in to. Just promise me you’ll let me know when your here. And don’t worry I don’t use people to fight my fights or weapons, I can fuck you up without any help.
It’s soo fucking hilarious you think I am actually scared of a rat like you! I’ve never known anyone so deluded in my life.
Also when I was trying to find out where you live before, that was before you said fucking Ireland, I though you were in the UK. I just wanna know what you look like so I know who I’m going for. But your too much of a pussy to do that obviously. End of.
June 23rd, 2010
“I would never back down from a pussy piece of shit like you”
Looks like you just did, faggot.
June 23rd, 2010
Just lemme know when your due here then we’ll see aye? lmao.
June 23rd, 2010
Whatever
“If I ever find out where you live I’m gonna hunt you down and destroy you for what you’ve said”
Ha ha ha. So full of shit.
June 23rd, 2010
so is that your facebook page CON? are you going to deny it?
June 23rd, 2010
For the Love of God and Everything Holy!!!!!!!!!!!
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Please Video This Fight!!!!!
June 23rd, 2010
@Roca
No I’m not Will Farrells ugly twin lol go ahead and add him.
@Phranc
Ain’t gonna happen. This guy threatened that he would track me down and kill me bla bla bla. When I called his bluff look how much he back tracked.
June 23rd, 2010
Home James! LOL Somehow I don’t believe that is your name.
June 23rd, 2010
Hmmph
I was sure that E-thugs were an extinct species. I can join in on this, too.
Come to winnipeg, both of you fuckers, I will end you BOTH AT THE SAME TIME while reading Rolling Stone magazine and preparing a box of Kraft Dinner.
It’s a standing offer, thus, I am far tougher than both of you, since I will never meet either one of you in my life, but I have a standing offer to fight that I will never back down from. E-THUGS AND HARMONY? NEVAR.
You see how ridiculous this is?
Seriously though, if either of you finds yourself somehow in my shithole of a city (Winnipeg), I’ll buy the first round. Seeing as how far away you guys are, if you can afford to travel here, yer buying the rest. You better know how to show a fella a good time.
June 23rd, 2010
Damn…. Winnepeg. Thats too far for a drink or to put it in your wife
June 23rd, 2010
That’s one thing I really like about America. You have a lot less beef with other countries because you’re only a few centuries old compared to Europe and its history.
June 23rd, 2010
@CON
England wasn’t all that great to Settlers here.
I think all in all, you just go for the greater good.
June 23rd, 2010
France saved our ass and people in America despise the French.
June 23rd, 2010
who gives a fuck about the past….if ppl were to hold a grudge to countries because of what they have done in the past then Germany would have been the most hated country in the world.
seriously….grow up and move on
June 23rd, 2010
Mr. Jaffe, you can afford to fly here! Don’t fuck with me now, I am too fragile. *weeps*
June 23rd, 2010
Won’t be a fight, this clown is just getting decked. Fucked off with him laughing at dead soldier. He just better let me know when he flies over here.
I never once said I was going to fly to Ireland to kill him, that’s bull, he just for some reason thinks a trained soldier and boxer is actually scared of him, he’s a delusional sad man. If he lived in England then it’s a different story, no one would fly somewhere just to take him down a peg. He says it’s means I’m flapping it lol but the smarter ones among you should know that no one will fly to another country just too spark some one out. He won’t even show me what he looks like ffs! I’m convinced he is that fat fuck on facebook though.
June 25th, 2010
@OLD
Add that facebook guy then lol
705 soldiers ate the curb here in the last couple of decades so we’re not exactly scared of you fuckers either, especially an unarmed 23/24 year old who talks shit then backs down when he’s confronted. After all weren’t you the one who wanted to shut me up??
http://saoirse32.blogsome.com/2005/08/27/soldiers-die-in-warrenpoint-massacre/
Birmingham – Belfast is only around 50 mins to travel and is cheap as £20 to fly, it’s a lot closer than other parts of england so you’re full of shit!
June 28th, 2010
Instead of talking out your arse CON just tell me when your flying over. Stop acting big and lets see how big your acting when your here lol.
The fact is I never once said I would fly to Ireland, your not worth the flight also there is the fact I can’t leave the country without the Armies permission, which lets face it won’t happen, so just shut your fucking potato famined mouth and just turn up November aye?
It’s hilarious you thin someone who has been to war 3 times is scared of you lmfao! OMG your a ball :p
June 30th, 2010
Yeah I’m actually convinced you are scared. You didn’t say you’d come to Ireland because once I told you where I was you shit yourself and went quiet but before I told you where I lived you were constantly threatening me to tell you where I was from so you could come over and shut me up
Last time I checked Belfast was still part of the UK so you’re talking through you arse! More excuses???? HA HA!
June 30th, 2010
I’ve never known anyone up their own arse so much! OMG you really are deluded. You obviously don’t understand much do ya? Soldiers CAN NOT fly too N.Ireland without permission for obvious reasons that you seem to stupid to realize ffs. Instead of talking big just tell me when your here. End of. You’ll see if i’m scared lmao. Sad bastard
June 30th, 2010
And also all that you wrote is blatantly bullshit lmao! I did not go quiet when you said you were from the potato famine land lmao! You seriously must live in lala land