There have been talks for some time now regarding a possible subscription plan for the Playstation Network, which is currently free, for some time now. However, there have been no details regarding what exactly the pricing scheme would look like or what subscribers will get.

Well today thanks to a market survey we get a look at some of the ideas Sony has cookin’ and quite frankly, they don’t look too bad. They have prices ranging from $29.99 a year to $69.99 which will give you thinks like unrestricted access to PSOne Classics and PSP Minis in addition to exclusive DLC and one hour game trials.

You can read more about it in the market survey below.

via destructoid

Around the same time the PSPgo was announced, Sony unveiled PSP minis, bite sized low cost games similar to those founds on the iPhone’s App Store. As you can probably tell from its name, these games are only available for play on the PSP but if recent rumors are to be believed, that all may change in the near future.

According to Pocket Gamer, the PSP minis will be coming to the PS3 which means you will be able to play the portable games on the console at a higher resolution.

When exactly will this happen? Well, the same reports suggest sometime before Christmas which is currently only a few weeks away so Sony better get a move on if this rumor is true.

We first heard of the iPhone app-esque PSP Minis back at Gamescom but other than the fact that they would be small downloadable games, we don’t know much. Today, however, recent reports bring us news that the PSP Minis will be single player only and will not feature support for downloadable content. So, those of you who hoped to play a Tetris PSP Mini remake with your buddys over the internet will have to seek alternative options.

Then again, iPhone apps are generally single player with DLC compatibility added only recently and they still sell like hot cakes. We’ll have to wait and see if the PSP Minis share the same success.

via kotaku

One of the biggest gripes gamers usually have against the PSP is its lack of a strong game library. However, if recent reports are to be believed Sony may have a few tricks up their sleeve to remedy that.

One of those tricks is the possibility of free PSP Minis developer kits which would give a much larger group of developers access to the service. News comes to us from a recent interview done with Sony Europe’s Zeno Colaco where he was questioned about the possibility of a free dev kit, to which he responded:

“Further down the line, we may investigate a totally free model or supported model.”

However, Colaco says, having a free dev kit isn’t all peaches:

“There are dangers in having total open access; having six thousand applications where probably only thirty are discovered by the consumer. Some of the developers working on the App Store and PSP Minis tell us that they prefer our approach because they get more visibility.”

via pocketgamer