Sony's message on this has been a lot more clear than people are suggesting. The PS4 will work just like the PS3 for disc games. This means that EA might go a

Sony's message on this has been a lot more clear than people are suggesting. The PS4 will work just like the PS3 for disc games. This means that EA might go and re-implement their "online pass" system and Sony won't get in their way and try to force them NOT to do this, but there will be nothing built into the console for this and the implementation and blame for it are all squarely on EA. Sony can (and has) only stated for sure that their first party games won't have something like "online pass", if external publishers do it, that's on them, just like it was when EA implemented "online pass" for the 360 and PS3.