# XBOX ONE Gamertags **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 3, 2013, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-one-gamertags/267994 "2013-12-03T10:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Boost\_Creep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boost_creep/32/6366_2.png) [@Boost\_Creep](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boost_Creep)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-one-gamertags/267994/11 "2013-12-06T09:35:06Z")
> [@The Day Crew Declares war against Oaks3!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-day-crew-declares-war-against-oaks3/53700/19): > > I can’t bring myself to pay for internet twice or I’d consider it. > Sony has defended its decision to start charging for multiplayer gaming on the PS4, claiming that it’s “hard” to keep the service running for free. > When Sony launched its PS3 console, a full year after Microsoft’s Xbox 360, it had several advantages over its competitor. Some were tied to the hardware, such as the presence of a Blu-ray drive which could store more data and play high-definition video, but one was a book-keeping decision: Microsoft charged a subscription fee to play multiplayer online games on the Xbox 360, but Sony would allow everyone to play PS3 games online completely free of charge. > **Sadly, this free service won’t extend to the PS4. For the first time, the company will be charging gamers a fee in order to play online multiplayer titles - although it plans to sweeten the deal with free games, folding the charge into its existing PlayStation Plus offering.** > “There’s a ton of value in the [PlayStation] Network,” Sony’s Eric Lempel told press at a PS4 event this week. “We’ve built up the network over the years and made a significant investment, and it’s quite honestly hard to keep everything [free of charge.] It’s a massive infrastructure to run this thing, and now with some of these social features there’s a lot going on”. > Sony’s PSN and Microsoft’s equivalent, Xbox Live, now have much the same features, including online multiplayer exclusively for paid-for members, discounts and free games as a carrot, but Lempel said that PSN still has advantages over its rival. Chief among these is that all media streaming services will be accessible to non-paid users - although some services, like Sony’s own Music Unlimited, charges a separate subscription fee. This compares favorably to the Xbox One, which locks its own to paid subscribers only. Inbound --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/xbox-one-gamertags/267994)._