1. Silver is the free membership. Gold is the paid membership. You can buy 1 month, 3 month, or 12 month (+1 month free) cards.
2. No.
3. Online multiplayer, earlier access to demos, entering some contests.
4. See #1.
5. Yes to both. Though on demos, I think you have to wait a week after they first release or something like that.
6. Yes.
7. Everything but multiplayer and brand new demos.
8. I haven't noticed any pattern, but I might just be dense. They seem to release when they release.
9. Ditto #8.
10. I'm pretty sure you have to pay for Gold for each account. But if you wanted to make a Japanese account to download their demos, for instance, you could do it with a Silver account.
11. Yes, it was like a few feet long, IIRC. I didn't really look at it, as I had to buy a 20 foot cable. My penis puts them both to shame, FYI!







