The Gaming Network is Sony’s free online service for Gaming. It is imperative for every Gaming 3 user to create a user profile on the Console menu – similar to PC operating systems. This allows the user to the Console menu, create an online ID for the Gaming Network and associate it with the user name on the console (enable).
An online ID can be activated in two consoles simultaneously, making it possible to use downloaded and purchased content on multiple consoles simultaneously. But an online ID can not be logged several times at the same time on the Network. If several users are created on a console, such as family members or roommates, all users can have the content that is installed on this console another.
Thus, it is possible to play the purchased and downloaded from online ID A Game Console X 1 with the online ID and A 2, with Console Online ID B simultaneously, as long as online ID enabled on console 2 A. The activation of a line ID associated with the serial number of the console. When a console for repair, replacement or is sold, the Online ID should be disabled before absolutely.
Gaming Plus is a paid upgrade for the Wholesale Video Games, which since the 29th June 2010 is available. This service includes Network games, minis and PS one classics, premium avatars, dynamic themes, automatic downloads, and test full versions.
The membership fee can usually be completed over a period of three months or a year. For additional fees acquired products can also be used after the expiry of the membership. The free games are no longer available after the expiration of membership, but can be reused after re-commencement of membership.
Beginning of June 2012, the brand announced on the video and computer game at E3 in Los Angeles, the expansion of Gaming Plus to offer the Instant Game Collection. Content of the Wholesale Video Games are several games whose offer will be exchanged in a given rhythm against other games. As a Gaming Plus member, you can see the games currently the offer to purchase and use them until termination of membership. The Games are currently contained inter alia Ratchet & Clank All 4 One, Infamous 2, Little Big Planet 2, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition and MotorStorm: Apocalypse.
On 18 September 2008, the brand released Life with Gaming. It is a greatly expanded version of Folding @ home. You can now also send messages, live images from 60 cities, cloud images and retrieve the current weather. The current Folding @ home was set on the same day.