Is Sony Becoming as Cheap as Microsoft?

Something i noticed is the PSN very slowly charging for things they didn't used to such as themes. Whatever happened to free themes? they were an awesome thing for people like me lacking a credit card and the ability to refill their PSN account like clockwork and were a welcome edition.

The brand new preminum themes such as LBP's sackboy on the go were ok becasue they required more effort to make and are better so i don't mind paying for them but when a company charges you for what a picture and a few icons you know something has to be wrong.

Even this halloween Elliot Linger European Product manager for the SCEE has annoced halloween costumes for Playstation Home, you'ld think this would have been a freebee seeing as it's halloween and well hardly anyone is going to be wearing them apart from that one day but no it seems that each one of them is around £1.59. So a costume i'll only wear ounce on the store for two days? All the SCEE is doing is coeracing people into buying something by adding a time limit and adding the promise of free stuff. Really elliot? FREE?!

If i go into the burn zombie burn space without this costume i'll...oh wait i have to spend £1.59 to get this "free" stuff, not really free then isn't it? Sony's becoming extremely tight as of late and this seems like just the start so unless you want sony forcing you to pay for every little idea they come up with i would ignore this event completly. Sometimes i wish i could go over to america just to use the SCEA's PS3.