I think it's a monthly payment and you can download what ever you want from the store

This could be awesome, if its down right. Pay a monthly subscription fee and get access to hundreds of games instantly! Think sega channel all over again. Access to the full library of playstation games including back cataloged titles from PS2 and PS1 as well as PSN exclusives. And if it is just single game rentals, I don't see why this wouldn't work, you can already rent movies from the PSN and it works fine. I would definitely rent a game on the PSN before buying, especially if it was very in expensive. I am a fan of the Siren Blood Curse sales model but I am not sure I want the game and am not willing to shell out 10.99 (sale price atm) just to try it out, because to me it ain't worht $11 bucks for a game I'll never play. Monthly subscrition is the way to go. 1 price gets you access to the game and multiplayer online play - sounds good to me.

I don't see how this "rental" service would work with a subscription based model. If people are renting these games and finishing them in the rental time, then never buying them then... the developer is cheated of any money right?



There'd have to be a system in place to let each developer get a few bucks from each rental of their game for it to be worth it for them. HEck even old-skool rental services (like heading into blockbuster) or even stuff like gamefly require someone to buy the game from the developer and then rent it out from there. Take 10,000 blockbusters buying up say 15 copies of new games for rent... that's A LOAD of games sold and cash that goes to the developer! A direct rental service cuts that all out eh?



Maybe Sony's got a model in place to make it work and so developers get paid? With movies, charging a few bucks for a movie means an easy system in which they (sony) can sort out what movies are bringing in what money and can distribute the parts as they've agreed apon with the publishing houses.