Netflix Streaming Coming To PS3 In November > And from what I've read, no dumb fee

reply to ptrowski

Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee

And that's why there are a few million less people on the PSN. You have a PS3, great. Too bad we have been streaming on the 360 for a while. Here's to catching up to a better online experience and Netflix.

Here's to not having to pay Microsoft $50 for the privilege of paying Netflix.

And 1 million, 100 million, I don't play online titles on my consoles so I could care less about the "community" of XBL or PSN. I use the network functionality to grab demos and use the consoles as media center extenders, that's it.

For online gaming I stick to PC as console FPSes suck.

This will go round and round. Go enjoy your PSN.

Don't care about PSN, or XBL.

But Ballmer I'm sure appreciates your business.

Because Microsoft insisted on $50 per year for me to use Netflix on my XBL even if I didn't want to use any online gaming features. That additional fee equates to a 46% increase in monthly Netflix cost.

No fuss now that Sony will allow me to use Netflix over a console without paying $50 per year extra.

You don't have to have a Gold account to rent movies. You don't have to have a Gold account to get demos. You don't have to have a Gold account to rent TV shows. You don't have to have a Gold account to get map packs.

Gold gets you video chat, online play (obviously) and Netflix, that's about it. The free Silver account gets you everything else. Netflix should be a Silver (Free) feature as it will soon be with the PS3.

The $50 is for the Gold account, not "XBL". You can get most XBL features without forking over $50 every year. Everything you mention (rentals, map packs etc) can be had using a Silver account.

That's good to know then. I never bothered with a silver account as I play with friends online.