Sony's upcoming video game console, the PlayStation 4, will be the first PlayStation incapable of playing CDs and also does not play MP3s. Now, a company executive says that Sony is working to change that.

Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment president, told Giant Bomb that the development team behind PS4 is working to make PS4s capable of playing CDs and MP3s in a post-launch patch. Yoshida also told the website that both he and the development team "didn't really think about MP3 and CD."

Some gamers complained when they first learned that PS4s were not compatible with neither CDs nor MP3s, resulting in a Twitter post from Yoshida.

"Thanks for the feedback to the lack of MP3 and DLNA support at the launch of PS4. I'll share with the PS4 Dev team for future consideration," he said via Twitter.

Yoshida said that he was surprised by gamers' complaints, many of which accused Sony of eliminating the feature merely so that users would use Sony's Music Unlimited Service. Yoshida and Anu Kirk, Sony's director of music services, deny this.

"I can see how people could see it as some kind of diabolical plot, but that's not how we roll," he told Polygon. "Our brief here at Music Unlimited was to just make the best music app available for the PS4, and that's the extent of our knowledge of it."

Sony's Music Unlimited Service comes installed on every PS4, but subscriptions range from $4.99 to $9.99. The service is comparable to Spotify and Pandora, Kirk said.

The PS4 will be released Nov. 15 in North America for $399.99.

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