PlayStation 4 To Offer Various Levels Of Membership?

<p>President of Sony Worldwide Studios&comma; Shuhei Yoshida&comma; has gone on record by telling The Guardian &lpar;A UK tabloid&rpar; that the next PlayStation&comma; the PlayStation 4&comma; could offer multiple subscription levels to users&period; If this sounds similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Live subscription model then hold onto your hat because Sony might be considering in implementing a similar thing if this report is to be believed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the article&comma; Shuhei Yoshida tells the Guardian&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;As more and more services and contents become available digitally&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll have more of an option to create attractive packages&period; So hypothetically we can look at different models&&num;8211&semi;like a cable TV company&period; We could have gold&comma; silver or platinum levels of membership&comma; something like that&period; We can do subscription services when we have more content&&num;8211&semi;especially now that we have the Gaikai technology available&period; With one subscription you have access to thousands of games&&num;8211&semi;that&&num;8217&semi;s our dream&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whilst it does raise a few eyebrows that Sony would consider a &OpenCurlyQuote;chargeable’ membership similar to Xbox Live&comma; the prospect of having access to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;thousands of games” does sound a lot more promising than what Microsoft are currently offering&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you all think&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;guardian&period;co&period;uk&sol;technology&sol;gamesblog&sol;2013&sol;feb&sol;22&sol;ps4-shuhei-yoshida-interview">The Guardian<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;ps4-could-allow-multiple-subscription-levels-6404401">Game Spot<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;9f1f5551-8c7f-4b39-98dd-8bd7414bd773" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;