Push Square: PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console Charging for Online Multiplayer

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So, did the shitposting team at Push Square not get the memo that the 10th generation of video game consoles started on June 5, 2025 with the launch of Nintendo Switch 2?

After offering online free of charge on PS3, the fact that access to multiplayer servers was tied into Sony's subscription service PS Plus upon the launch of the PS4 was always a quiet but contentious topic.
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The debate effectively died out after a few years, but it may soon flare up again, as it's been reported the next Xbox will drop the paywall for online multiplayer on Xbox Live. This would leave PS6 as the only next-gen console still charging for access, via PS Plus Essential.
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The claim comes from Windows Central, which, in a wide report about the next Xbox, states after speaking to sources: "Right now, I'm told the current plan is for the next Xbox specifically to have no paywall for multiplayer."
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Of course, Sony hasn't directly commented on how it'll handle online multiplayer access on PS6, but there seems little reason for it to change how PS Plus is currently handled. PS Plus isn't required to access free-to-play titles like Fortnite on PS5, PS4, but it is needed for any paid experiences, such as Call of Duty and Battlefield 6.
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Via its Nintendo Switch Online membership, Nintendo also charges for online multiplayer access, and is required for Switch 2 titles like Mario Kart World. However, as a console now four months into its lifespan — and will be at least two years old by the time the PS6 launches — the Switch 2 won't be seen as a direct competitor in the next-gen race.
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As it increasingly positions itself as a third-party publisher in the market, Microsoft is supposedly pitching its next Xbox as more of a PC hybrid machine that could house multiple storefronts at once. This means you could have the usual Xbox Store alongside Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, and more under one roof. It would also open up PlayStation Studios-published titles to being playable on a home Xbox machine.
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Windows Central states the removal of the online multiplayer paywall is for the "next Xbox specifically", suggesting that it would remain a thing for the current Xbox Series X|S systems.
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If the lack of an online paywall is a point Microsoft stresses as it rolls out its next-gen Xbox, there's potential Sony could feel it needs to lift its own online multiplayer paywall. Could you see that happening? Let us know in the comments below.
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PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console Charging for Online Multiplayer

Next-gen Xbox reportedly removing paywall
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uhhhhh...
there already is a gen10 console with an online MP fee:

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I don't know why Microsoft hasn't already done this. It would be one of the things they could use against Sony. Sony has sucked this gen and Microsoft has just repeatedly shot themselves in the foot.
 
kevboard said:
uhhhhh...
there already is a gen10 console with an online MP fee:
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Isn't Switch 8th gen and Switch 2 9th gen?

Punished Miku said:
nial nial its okay. This is one of those times where if you're a PS fan you sit back and let them say it. Loudly, and often.
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Well said. He's crying at the wrong tree, should ask Sony to stop asking for more money instead.
 
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kevboard said:
if the Switch is 8th gen then Nintendo had 3 8th gen consoles... and somehow the Switch is a successor to 2 them 🙃.

because Wii U and 3DS are both 8th gen systems. the Switch is the successor to both of them... so...
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Yeah I don't know how to count, sorry lol :lollipop_content:
 
nial said:
It's probably my ESL-ness, but I don't quite understand what you're trying to convey here.
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I'm saying this is the perfect time to apply a little pressure to PS and see if the fee for online multiplayer can be dropped. Its not a bad thing to have a few click bait headlines when its a pro consumer sentiment.
 
Pop said:
Nintendo gets the pass again

And Xbox will be a PC so
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MS, AMD, OEMs are doing both Xbox PCs and Xbox Consoles.
dolabla said:
I don't know why Microsoft hasn't already done this. It would be one of the things they could use against Sony. Sony has sucked this gen and Microsoft has just repeatedly shot themselves in the foot.
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Because of console subsidies, the online multiplayer is part of the recovery process to get that money back. That's why they won't subsidize next gen consoles.
 
Nintendo is same gen as ps6 and of course the next "xbox" won't be charging for online because it's just a PC. Not sure what pushsquare is talking about.
 
Punished Miku said:
I'm saying this is the perfect time to apply a little pressure to PS and see if the fee for online multiplayer can be dropped. Its not a bad thing to have a few click bait headlines when its a pro consumer sentiment.
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TintoConCasera said:
Well said. He's crying at the wrong tree, should ask Sony to stop asking for more money instead.
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PS Plus is one of the major forces of revenue stream for Sony's gaming business, so it's beyond the pulse of anyone, especially when Microsoft (according to the rumor) seems to be just dropping out of the console market. Not that I wouldn't obviously want it, but just knowing that Xbox is dropping it as a result of it going full-on PC development, yeah, I don't mind it.
 
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TintoConCasera said:
Yeah I don't know how to count, sorry lol :lollipop_content:
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Nintendo made it weird by only following the handheld release timing now and not the home console timing. handhelds have been a few years ahead of the home consoles since the late 90s... so now their console generations are shifted forward a bit, by like 1 to 2 years.

but then again, console generations generally weren't as neatly organised as they are nowadays... I mean, the Dreamcast launched 2 years before the GameCube. you rarely see that these days.
 
nial said:
Almost 3 years! November 1998 to September 2001. The Dreamcast was already discontinued by the time the GameCube launched.
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oh, the whole japan gets console months or years ahead thing is also something we don't see anymore.
I imported my PSP because europe got it almost a year after Japan.
 
dolabla said:
I don't know why Microsoft hasn't already done this. It would be one of the things they could use against Sony. Sony has sucked this gen and Microsoft has just repeatedly shot themselves in the foot.
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Because MS is probably trying to figure out a way to make you pay. It's not 100% set in stone yet.
 
It would be awesome if all console makers removed the paywall for online play. If Microsoft is the first to remove it to make that happen, then we will have come full circle.
 
Punished Miku said:
I'm saying this is the perfect time to apply a little pressure to PS and see if the fee for online multiplayer can be dropped. Its not a bad thing to have a few click bait headlines when its a pro consumer sentiment.
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I don't think Sony can drop it outright, it's probably where bug chunk of their operating profits come from.

Sony is going to be left in tricky situation. MS already has a replacement for their $10 tier, since it's basically the base tier Cloud Gaming tier.

Sony can't afford to not only drop online paywall but they probably can't afford to offer Cloud Gaming on lowest tier.
 
I, as a grown adult, will make that determination.

If you think that some of the subscriptions will disappear and it's just a Sony business model, then you should wake up to what reality we are in and what we will continue to lean into.
 
Sony can go fuck a stick next gen.

I'm a pretty hardcore PS guy. Been with them since PS1. But this bullshit paid mp is pissing me off, especially with these price hikes.

Just give me a free tier. I'm not asking for cloud saves, or discounts, or free games , or whatever the fuck.
Just let me play my online games without some added fee.
So I'm riding out the PS5 generation, then I'm honestly thinking I might just get a PC and be done with consoles.
Especially since they have the balls to charge me for console online but PC players get it for free?
Nahhh bro. Free mp for ps6 or I'm out.
 
Mikey Jr. said:
Sony can go fuck a stick next gen.

I'm a pretty hardcore PS guy. Been with them since PS1. But this bullshit paid mp is pissing me off, especially with these price hikes.

Just give me a free tier. I'm not asking for cloud saves, or discounts, or free games , or whatever the fuck.
Just let me play my online games without some added fee.
So I'm riding out the PS5 generation, then I'm honestly thinking I might just get a PC and be done with consoles.
Especially since they have the balls to charge me for console online but PC players get it for free?
Nahhh bro. Free mp for ps6 or I'm out.
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Jez Corden master plan working as intended.
 
Why are journalists writing articles based on something Jez says "may" happen? He says in his own article that MS may or may not have an online paywall.

So Push Square takes it as good as done and then conveniently forgets a company called Nintendo exists? Didn't they sale 150 million Switch units last Gen? Funny how some of these video game journalists forget one of the best/successful videogame companies on planet Earth exists when they write articles like this.
 
nial said:
PS Plus is one of the major forces of revenue stream for Sony's gaming business, so it's beyond the pulse of anyone, especially when Microsoft (according to the rumor) seems to be just dropping out of the console market. Not that I wouldn't obviously want it, but just knowing that Xbox is dropping it as a result of it going full-on PC development, yeah, I don't mind it.
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Why make things up? MS and their CEOS have clearly stated they are doing both Xbox PCs and Consoles.
mayham2199 said:
Because MS is probably trying to figure out a way to make you pay. It's not 100% set in stone yet.
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MS already has a replacement with Essential being the base Cloud Gaming tier. They no longer need online paywall.
StereoVsn said:
Next gen MS games will just be PC games. Xbox portions seems to be only for BC.
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Please provide source where MS releases a powerful fixed spec hardware and they won't have games optimized for that hardware?
 

PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console (and it is)

A whole fud against the PS6 has started, there are a lot of journalists talking nonsense.
 
kevboard said:
they should... not only for PR reasons, but simply because it's a joke it is still even there in the first place
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Yeah, but you just know that they wouldn't.
They're simply not doing the paywall on Windows Central's rumored next-gen device because they literally can't. It's a PC.
 
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nial said:
Yeah, but you just know that they wouldn't.
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. it is becoming very obviously inexcusable as time goes on.


nial said:
They're simply not doing it on Windows Central's rumored next-gen device because they literally can't. It's a PC.
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that would be a PR disaster btw.
"hey! here are 2 systems, so on this one you can play online for free, and on this one you can't! and on this one GamePass will be much more expensive too because of that! but both of them are Xboxes guys!"
 
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