Metalmurphy said:
Tons of free addons on PSN. Is that better?
There are tons of free addons on XBL (to respond to your edit: from first and third parties).
What he's referring to is the fact that Microsoft has historically exerted pressure on some games to monetize DLC. This is not a rule; there are tons of all categories of free content on XBL. The games affected have mainly been some of the games it publishes (although not all games they publish, like Crackdown or N+ for example, and there are more examples if you want to hear them).
I don't think anyone would disagree with any publisher (EA, Activision, Nobilis, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) making decisions about the games that they publish; Sony has also monetized DLC, naturally. There is one major example of a third party publisher complaining about Microsoft asking them to charge money; Valve with Crash Course for Left 4 Dead -- they also charged money for The Passing, which was free on PC, but it's unclear if Microsoft asked them to do that or if they made that choice of their own volition. This is the concern the poster is referring to.
So the question is--does Sony exert pressure on third party games to monetize DLC? The answer is yes and no. No one has ever claimed that Sony have exerted social pressure (or asked developers to charge for would-be content). There are no situations similar to Crash Course. However, they have the bandwidth charge, which is a technical pressure. All products distributed over PSN are billed $0.16 per gigabyte of bandwidth used, whether the content is paid or free. It was believed that the fee impacted only the first 60 days of downloads of free content, while it impacted the lifetime of paid content.
This fee, along with certification costs (which would be true of any console but not PC), would be the likely reason behind this costing money.
