Okay, prepare yourself for caveats: If you are a PlayStation Plus and Gamer Advisory Panel (GAP) members who opted-in to receive marketing marketing as of October 24th... there's a chance you could be receiving an invitation to the new invite-only, PS3-only PlayStation Rewards program starting today.Yes, indeed, Sony is launching a loyalty system that 'rewards' GAP and PSPlus (but not PSP users, not yet) for playing games, and buying and downloading items from PSN.
"The more you play and participate, the more progress you’ll make through our three reward tiers: Select, Pro and Legendary", says Sony. "As your status increases, so do the rewards. And if you want to check out your current status level, simply go to your private profile page and look at the reward progress meter."
So far, the rewards include:
- PSN avatars that display member status in the program.
- Dynamic themes and PlayStation Home content.
- "Opportunities" to participate in members-only sweepstakes and giveaways for experiences and merchandise you won’t find elsewhere. An example of this is an all expenses paid trip to the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as PlayStation’s guest.
More details via the US PlayStation Blog.