Originally posted by pooponme
On the other hand they pay a monthly/annual fee to have those features. If Sony were to make these available for free then sure that'd be a miracle, but i'm sure theres a reason they haven't yet? =D
On the other side we are paying $50 a year, which is always a subscription like Xbox Live =D
But my question to your answer is, why does Sony wants to release a firmware 'update' every 1-2 months wasting their money because as you said, it is for free, adding useless features that nobody is waiting/asking for. Instead of just releasing one update like every 4-6 months with feature that we request?
As far as I know, making 6 updates in 6 months, and in each of those updates making features that we are not waiting/asking for, cost more than just making one update with at least 2 features that we need, like improving the internet browser, cross game chat, or those other hundreds of things that we really need.