<![CDATA[Reason for long waits for DLC]]>This is one of the reasons for the long waits for demos and other in game-content, kind of sucks really.

Sony Charging Publishers for Free Downloads
It's free to you, but costly to publishers.
You know those free demos and the downloadable content that you nab so care-free to try out new games and extend your current titles? It's costing publishers a decent bit of cash every time someone downloads this stuff on the PlayStation Network.

MTV Multiplayer has learned that Sony implemented a per-gigabyte download charge to publishers on October 1st of last year for free content. It now costs publishers $0.16 per downloaded gigabyte, which while seemingly small, adds up to big numbers in the long run. As demos often hover around the 1GB mark these days, that means that for every one million downloads of a demo of that size, the publisher has to fork over $160,000 in fees. This charge is only in effect for the first 60 days of a piece of content's availability, but that's obviously when most of the downloads happen anyway. Paid content is not affected by this fee.

Microsoft and Nintendo do not charge download fees, which could be part of the reason that many demos hit Xbox Live a week before the PlayStation Network - cross-platform gamers would have already downloaded it on Xbox Live, and therefore wouldn't need to nab it again on the PlayStation Network, saving the publisher some cash.

]]>http://localhost:4567/topic/907/reason-for-long-waits-for-dlcRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:42:32 GMTSat, 21 Mar 2009 02:05:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Reason for long waits for DLC on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:08:43 GMT]]>Japan buy loads of PSP's and theyre getting new game for it lately, star ocean, dissidia and shit like that,thats why theyre first, the list look good to me 😄

]]>http://localhost:4567/post/14285http://localhost:4567/post/14285Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:08:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reason for long waits for DLC on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:00:43 GMT]]>I agree dude. But did you see the previous 2 weeks of console sales?

  1. PSP (WTF?? right??)
  2. PS3
  3. DSi
  4. 360
  5. Wii
  6. Normal DS
]]>http://localhost:4567/post/14229http://localhost:4567/post/14229Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:00:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reason for long waits for DLC on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:02:31 GMT]]>Im afraid i think its free tbh, Sony seem to be changing policies lately, maybe it because theyre more comfident now, you gotta admit i bet even they were afraid theyre console might fail early on lol.

]]>http://localhost:4567/post/14222http://localhost:4567/post/14222Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:02:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Reason for long waits for DLC on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:55:12 GMT]]>They said its free, Xbox do charge for it, and they wont allow free DLC either, I need more proof then "MTV" rap music channel shit [=

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