Sony considering Early Access initiative

Last year Valve introduced a service called Early Access on their Steam platform, giving costumers the opportunity to buy and try games that are still early in their development cycles and provide feedback to the creators.

Ever since the service has been wrapped in controversy, with supporters applauding the option for customers to interact more directly with developers (and vice versa) while opponents question why they should pay for unfinished products.

Nevertheless, the amount of people willing to pay for these early access games is so high that Sony now are looking into a similar service for Playstation 4:

"That's one of the massive conversations we have internally, Sony's Adam Boyes told Gamasutra, that, at what point does a game meet standards of release? We still at some point ensure that we're being mindful of the consumer. We don't want somebody to stumble across that title and expect a full product, and have a negative experience".

The details are in other words not ironed out yet, and they still need to settle what requirements needs to be met by developers before they get to release an ongoing project:

"Honestly, we're working through that right now. We're figuring out what's ok. We obviously have our tech requirement checklist that people have to adhere to. So we're internally discussing, what does that list look like this? What are the caveats? Stuff like this. So it's still a project that a lot of minds are considering. No details yet, but it's something on the top of my mind every day".

Where do you stand in the Early Access debate?