Playstation 3 Online will be have 2 tiers

[AlphaPrime]

284,600 unique players have played Halo 2 on Live within the last 24hrs and in that time 580,305 matches have been logged, obviously to accommodate these numbers a large number of servers have to be used and they have to be constantly maintained and undoubtedly this is expensive. Now the thing is how can a company offer a similar level of service on the PS3 for free? it makes no business sense....

Halo 2 doesn't have dedicated servers like PC games though. It uses the fastest connection as host, which means Bungie is doing no hosting at all, it just uses P2P instead of real servers. I don't think it'd cost that much.

[iconboy]

u will probably be able to play online for free at first. Im pro Sony, but even im not gunna turn a blind eye to the possibility of having to pay for playing because i choose to ignore key words in the presentation above like "starting at"

but whats the big deal? u have to pay for xbox live, and i think thats abrilliant service and i think its totally worth it.

I want Sony to copy Xbox Live, Im not gunna pretend like its not a good service because i dont own it and i only have an xbox and not a 360. I hope they take everything thats good about xbox live and use it and/or improve upon it :)