Sony officially axes their Playstation Rewards program for now and could end up canceling the entire thing as of today. The news comes arpund the same time Microsoft's announcement of starting a new "freebie" program and Nintendo's start of the U.S. Play Coins program.
Rumors range from Sony redoing the entire program to better compete with Nintendo Club and other free programs to dropping the program because it was getting too expensive to keep (ex. paid vacations to gaming conventions and studios).
The forums for Sony are split between making the program only for paid members (Playstation Plus) while others want non-paying members to have the same access to the program. Sony's original policy was to allow everyone to join but preference to paying users for membership.
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Nintendo confirms the plans for the moment do not include adding 3D for their next console. A few reasons would be due to costs for both the consumer and production being too high and they want the 3DS enough time to have the "3D" features as a selling point.
Nintendo's main goal is to have 3D without the glasses for their consoles and at the moment its not practical and too expensive for their style of games and development.