A survey has leaked Sony's considered details for premium PlayStation Network subscription.

According to the IPSOS Online Research survey (sent to Kotaku), Sony's premium subscription plans would include access to full hour game trials, free access to PSOne Classics, and cross-game voice chat.

"Sony is considering offering a premium PlayStation Network subscription in the future," the survey says. "The subscription offering would provide new premium features you could choose to pay for and are in addition to the features currently available for free such as access to online multiplayer gaming (current features would remain free)."

Premium users would also have access to Cloud Storage Space for Games, which would allow players to save their game online rather than on their hard disk, loyalty reward programs, automatic updates, member-exclusive Facebook Connectivity, an online music service and music video service, Hulu TV catch-ups, member-only game content, discounts, demo-sharing (sharing exclusive member-only demos from your full games with friends), and Netflix without a disc.

The chart on this page details four potential plans; three costing $69.99 a year or $9.99 a month and one running $4.99 a month and $29.99 a year.

The idea is clearly to add features on top of current PSN functionality and not, as some feared, about putting a price on online play. Fair play to Sony, we say.

This is something that I really want Microsoft to bring in for the Xbox, because I want to be able to login to my XBL account on any console.

I know you can use a memory stick, but doesn't it have to be a Microsoft one? i.e. you can't just whack a USB drive into the front and use that????

I don't have a memory card, and even if I did I don't think I'd be organised enough to actually take it everywhere with me.

And what do you mean signing in manually?

And what do you mean signing in manually?

On friends xbox, on the dash in the bit when you sign in you can recover a gamertag, it's a bit lengthy

And it's the memory unit for save games, not a usb stick

There's no reason for them not to make it so you can just use a USB key except for the fact that they want to coin you for a proprietary memory card, and sue anyone who makes a compatible one.