Could Playstation Network Being Down Lead to More Xbox 360 Game Sales?

The Playstation Network is down once again. And this time the timing couldn’t be worse. With new games like Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4 and Portal 2 launching, all with relatively important online components, the online component could ultimately play a role in whether consumers get these games for Xbox 360 or PS3 (save SOCOM 4 which is a PS3 exclusive). Even the infamous 2 online beta will have to be delayed now because of this. The Playstation Network being down could drive people to Xbox 360 purchases.

[PimpHandHappy]

next time XBL crashes over the holidays

[Troll_Police]

Shhhhhhh. They want you to forget about that.

[Agent Smith]

Yeah, it's funny how people forget.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007...

[the_best_player]

and the Halo wars online stats deleted :P

[gaffyh]

There's nothing even out right now that's worth buying on PSN or on disc. So it's not a huge problem, just don't play online for a couple of days.

People need to have a little patience.

[CaliGamer]

@ gaffyh - I guess someone forgot about Portal 2. Awesome game... on the PS3. ;)

[gaffyh]

Yeah but PS3 owners also get a Steam version, so just play that version instead. It even has cloud saving so you should be fine.

[metsgaming]

exactly i bet when that happens not a word will be spoken, no articles will be approved.

[TBM]

Nah why would buy another console just because the servers went down for a day or two?

[Ricco-Warrior]

man really want to kick some Ass in MK but that's alright........oh who the hell am i kidding i'm bored as hell , for once i miss hearing annoying kids screaming on my mic when i kick ther 12 year old butts in call of duty. all for the lolz

[Scary69]

Nope I am not running to play 360 or even buy one. heh. I have better things to do.

[Ricco-Warrior]

like work,drink and sex. that's my cycle and on the spare of all this my ps3

[PhoenixDevil]

Aside from us who are on here daily I don't know how many people even have noticed its down, some people have been fine all week too. If this is sorted by tomorrow then I doubt word will spread enough to influence peoples decisions all that much

If it lasts all week well then it could be a big problem

[Optical_Matrix]

Oh shut up

[TheMrMadzen]

Really?? REALLY???
Who would be dumb enough to buy Portal 2 on Xbox 360???
When they can buy it on Ps3 and get Steam support+PC copy!
Seriously.....dumb article is fucking dumb

[rajman]

True, but impatient gamers would still buy it for X360 because they simply want to play online right away, same could be said with Mortal Kombat, but that would be dumb because they would get no Kratos

[moparful99]

If you buy the ps3 version you can play on steam for FREE.. Meaning you can play a version of the game until PSN is brought back online.. Also as a bonus whenver you do get back on psn you can pick up where you left off on the steam version thanks to the cloud saving... But of course the impatient gamer would rather play on a paid for service right?

[rajman]

@ moparful99 If you have a X360 you likely a have a XBL account already, its not as if everyone buying the new games are only creating their XBL accounts now lol

[InLaLaLand]

That's the problem this gen, People (especially bachhe) are impatient. people can just play single player like other games and jump to Mp after completing them.

[Convas]

This guy called me dumb for doing with my gaming dollar as I please.

LOL

@Black: That's beside the point. The point is that this guy believes ALL who do not line up with his way of thinking are idiots. Even if I had a PS3, I wouldn't have brought Portal 2 for it because I have THIRTEEN friends on Xbox Live who did.

[BlackTar187]

Clizz you don;t own a ps3 yet . You just wrote in another thread you just ordered it so you bought Portal 2 for 360 because you had no intention any other way.

[Jazz4108]

Btw I purchased portal2 on 360 and it plats great. I have played both versions and they look the same. I have steam support on pc so if I want anything off pc I will buy it there until designers start makeing games from the bottom up for the ps on steam they will not be as good as the pc they were wrote for. Also if I want steam and like it I sure the heck won't be as happy with a scaled down version in steamworks but I guess you got to start somewhere. Speaking of somewhere has anyone tried the new section 8 on 360 predjuidice. I bought it last night for 1200 or 12.00 and its not a bad little unreal engine shooter for the money plus the sp campaigns is longer then kz3 which I paid 60.00 for.

[siyrobbo]

people who dont care for PC gaming and dont have a ps3?

[Dart89]

Yea man i don't think people will go out and buy a $200 console just so they can play for a few hour's until psn is back.Besides me and my girl are having a blast playing MK tag ladder together never thought i say this but she is a beast at MK.Sure i have xbox but i only have Dark sector for it which i've already beaten.

[Jazz4108]

Of all the great 360 games that's the one you have. Wow.

[Dart89]

Sorry man not into GEOW OR HALO.

[yewles1]

Wow, they're really clinging on to that hour hand with all their might...

[aviator189]

I really hope it gets back on this weekend. It'd be really awesome if they're doing a major overhaul to PSN, in terms of features and looks.

That'd be a nice surprise, but I doubt they would keep it under-wraps like this.

But I'll just play some halo and gears 3 beta until psn is back. Then, KZ 3 online will be waiting for me yet again. :)

[earbus]

Its back psn is working just kidding good ole sense of humour.

[BlackTar187]

ROFL nice one.

[TruthBTold]

Yeah, you really had us going there prankster

[Nodoze]

Article's author is clearly 360 biased. This line gives up any form of credibility 'compared with Xbox Live’s brilliant service that people might just go to that other system.'

Brilliant service indeed! Take your bias to another topic please.

How about some more important topics in Xbox land such as; Why does the 360 have so few exclusives this year? Why are there so few first party development studios? Where is MS support for the hardcore (no getting DLC early does not count)? Why has Aaron Greenburglar been so quiet of late??? Hmmmm.

Wake up and realize that MS is actually holding back gaming this generation.

[theonlylolking]

I do agree with your point but I think that articles like these show xbox fanboys insecurity. They wait for a long time just for something like this to happen and they think that it instantly proves that the xbox 360 is the best. Yet they forget what happened last year.

[Baka-akaB]

And people say ps3 fans are just utterly paranoids ?
Paranoid is usually indeed sensing conspiracies and threat that dont truly exist ... still it usually starts for a good reason and some actually very real suspiscious signs . In this case it's not some much a conspiracy , but the sheer vulture attitude from pretend journalists smelling the scent of burnt flesh and blood .

I never saw an article about the 360 losing sales to the ps3 because of downtimes that actually already happened .
Hell those were barely documented , even when they happened during hollydays .

You gotta love the irony too , most of the time according to trolls , no one use the ps3 online , and now according to the same kind of trolls , or hell actually the very same guys , the ps3 is online and downtime threatens its existence :p

[Obama]

When 360 is losing steam with so few exclusives, some people need to resort to bashing the competition over the most trivial things. It makes them feel their purchase of their console of choice justified.

[Rybakov]

well i own both and portal was super short.....i guess i could play trinity on the ps3.....or just watch netflix on till a ps3 game worth while comes out which NOW wont be till uncharted release

[moparful99]

Hmm its gonna be a crappy year for you if you think the only worthwhile game coming out is uncharted 3...

[Rybakov]

well i picked up killzone and singleplayer isnt all that great too me and with psn down no point in it, the team ico collection got delayed last guardian isn't out till who knows when, mass effect 3 is going on my xbox since ive played the whole series there just be stupid not to have a complete game play, and skyrim is going on 360.....actually besides infamous and resistance i really only buy exclusives for my ps3 (i just dont like infamous and im not a big fan of fps's killzone i bought to play with a friend)

[InLaLaLand]

Get Yakuza 4, great Japanese game.

[Electroshocked]

Not getting InFamous 2, seriously?

[ClimateKaren]

Maybe the color of the new Nintendo console will make people play video games on phones more.

Seriously, I haven't seen this much of a non-story in a long time. Trust me, these two days aren't going to do a damned thing to prospective consumers. Many of them don't notice, many others know of it, but may not have been itching to play online these few days anyway. I'm willing to wager every single one of them have 1P games or game modes to play for two days. It's an inconvenience, but anyone who knows anything about this current generation of consoles knows that this isn't unique to this system, and that its most direct competition still has them completely beat in terms of downtime for their online service, which people actually pay for.

Let me translate this article for people:
The PSN maintenance is a hot topic, and this is the best this guy could come up with as far as a story relating to it to catch some of the buzz.

I'm ashamed, I'm going to go reprimand myself right now for wasting time typing about this. I apologize if you wasted even more time on this page because you read my comment. Get out of here ASAP, nothing to see.

[sam2236]

That has to be THE stupidest headline I've ever seen. I swear to god.

[Op24]

I saw the headline and a bunch of words popped into my mind. Words I don't need to express here lol

[Achemki]

Blog takes a bit of a fanboy POV. Typical PS3rd place quotes and 360/Wii2 posturing that have nothing to do with the issue at hand. First he says service outtages like these are rare, then 2 sentences later he says its down consistently. So which is it?

FYI, XBL was down for many ppl just last month http://www.avforums.com/for... . Didn't exactly drive PS3 sales. Do you spend $200 on books when your cable goes out? So why would anyone buy a $200 system just for a weekend?

[cliffbo]

this article is trolling why has it been allowed on N4G ?

[blackburn5]

Dumb questions by troublemaking sites. Yeah, the one of the few times PSN was gone for more then a day and I will run out and buy a 360. Does that make ANY sense or do people just write before thinking as per usual?

[KillerPwned]

Yeah PSN crashed so my life is over i need to go buy a new xbox 360 game and a subscription of gold...

Idiots their are way more things to do then play games online for a day or two no matter how long PSN is out.

[GoldPS3]

I'm sure PSN won't be down forever. Why waste an extra $60 on the 360 version and then waste another $60 to play it online? Make no sense. I'm a patient person. I do other things besides gaming.

[Prototype]

Exactly, there's tons of single player games, as well as a Wii I can always jump on; hell I could even go as far to say I can actually go to this place called "outside"

[Prototype]

This is stupid; like I said in another article no one is gonna switch over just because a service is down. If anything I'd rather the blog writers keep their opinions professional and stop adding fuel to the fanboy wars.

[Fil101]

lol yeah cause the network being down is gonna make me buy an xbox i'd rather put my nags in a vice

[Raven_Nomad]

Well I know quite a few people like myself who own both consoles, one plays online on PS3 and plays offline and single player games on 360, with PSN down for two days now he bought a 3 month XBL card and instead of getting Mortal Kombat on PS3 like he planned, he got it on the 360 like I did.

So I could see XBL sales going up slightly and some people getting 360 versions instead.

[GLoRyKnoT]

Sony has lost $s & M$ has made ppl go back & play their 360s. So, of course gamers have grabbed a 360 game (or 2) simply because of this outage. Silly question.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I dont think this kind of down time will lead to any major sales push to other consoles.

That said, if for some unfortunate reason this goes on through the weekend...well Sony is going to need to be in major damage control "IF" that should happen. (just like MS needed to be back when they had their extended problems).

[InTheLab]

XBL has been down for me ever since my box died a month ago, for the second time. That didn't drive me to game that much more on my PS3.

I got a Steam account and few upgrades for my PC instead of buying another console from MS. Same damn games aside from 2 or 3...and they run better...with free online.

The CoD crowd might freak out and jump ship. At least they get early maps with that $60 annual fee.

[xX TriiCKy Xx]

Wow. PSN has been down a day and a fuckin half and already articles about "MOAR 360 since PSN's down!" That is retarded on so many levels.

[Maini8000]

its actually been down since wednesday... i didnt realise yesterday was wednesday lol... i think you need to listen to rebecca black she will teach the order of the days

[xX TriiCKy Xx]

Well, I didn't realize that as I haven't played my PS3 since Monday.