Old but VERY intresting news...
"gamesindustry.net
Following last weeks announcement of a new push to increase the
installed base of PS2 network adapters and hard drives in Japan, SCEI is to provide an incentive for developers and publishers of online games by making them exempt from any Sony license fee.
Although Sony does plan to charge a 15 per cent royalty on online titles in future, for now it plans to help publishers to make the decision to create commercially risky online games with this major financial incentive.
Combined with the news that the network adapter is to be sold in retail stores in Japan for the first time, this represents an aggressive move into the online gaming business in the Far East for Sony. It's still not clear which - if any - of these moves will be replicated in the USA (where PS2 online services launched last August) or in Europe (where a launch is not expected until at least Q3 this year).
I got a feeling that this can really give Sony's long term online plans a boost... Imagine if companies will actually be able to offered putting out risky titles that can turn out to be sucessful later on.
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