PS3 Teams up w/DirecTV in Streaming NFL Games:

In addition to baseball and hockey, PS3 owners now have the opportunity to catch football games, streamed live through their console. The PlayStation Blog today announced a partnership with DirecTV to offer the satellite television provider’s popular NFL Sunday Ticket service, which allows individuals to view out-of-market football games. Existing DirecTV subscribers can access Sunday Ticket on the console for an additional $50 at the start of the season (on top of what they paid for Sunday Ticket, of course) and can use their console as an additional receiver. PS3 users looking to opt into NFL Sunday Ticket without a DirecTV subscription will have to shell out a hefty $339.95. The PS3 will both show games in HD each week (up to 14) and display DirecTV’s Red Zone channel. Or you could just sign up for DirecTV and get NFL Sunday Ticket for free, but then you’d have a bulky satellite dish to deal with.

Based on comments made to Shacknews by DirecTV’s director of public relations Robert Mercer, NFL Sunday Ticket will be Exclusive Only to PS3, “…at least for this season”. He also added, “We just want to work with a single partner this time around to give everyone a great experience…”. For those who are not too familiar with NFL Sunday Ticket, it’s a DirecTV-Exclusive Sports Package which offers:

• Up to 14 NFL games every Sunday
• Full HD for every football game
• DIRECTV’s Red Zone Channel

IMO: This is a ‘pricey’ offer when we can just watch the games on our HDTV directly, but at the same time this partnership is showing ‘just how versatile’ our PS3’s are becoming! Streaming Movies is one thing, but now Sports Channels? ~ To Each Their Own, I guess. I’m just reporting it as worthy News! Leave us a comment and tell us what you think 😉