Let's be honest. This probably means some random premium content for subscribers for the rest of this gen, then online gaming on PS4 will turn out to be a "premium service". It's just a way of gently easing us in to the idea that Sony can't really afford not to charge for something that it's main rival is charging for succesfully.

Alternatively, I guess the subscription might relate largely to premium services for the other sony products which are soon to gain psn connections. Either way, I don't think Sony are going to want to cause argument by suddenly charging us to play PS3 online, but I expect it to turn up at the next gen.

Infernal update has randomly removed iPlayer from my XMB! Because I definitely want my trophies on faceclock more than I want to listen to 6music, don't I?

Fair enough then, I stand corrected. I'm wondering what counts as premium content though, I imagine it will gradually grow to include pretty much everything...?

but they said the movies were going to be charged per rental/purchase? That's not the same as a subscription.

So, what will they be offering a subscription to on PSN then? I guess they could charge a subscription to specific games, like FFXIV or The Agency (what happened to that game?), but the devs might well not be happy at Sony nicking a subscription fee to play their games?

I reckon they must be referring to a fee for PSN, tbh.