"Well, this was supposed to be it: the fabled “Year of the PS3”, where Sony closed the gap between its console and the Xbox. Since the launch of the PS3, Sony has been playing catch up and trying to keep up with the Microsoft."- Shanghai Six
This shouldn't just be a blip. It's almost been a month since it went down. The whole service is down and that has gimped countless developers sales-wise.
i am sick and tires of hear about the year of the playstation, i have been hearing about that bull ish since back in 2008 it didn't happen then, it didn't happed the next 2 years after, its not going to happen now... go ahead fanboys give me 100 disagrees for speaking the truth... not hating i love ps3 my favorite console but this is never going to happen...
yep, sony was handed this year on a silver platter but this outage has allowed gamers to look at what the competition is offering. sucks for Sony, but hey PSN users did not ask for a month of downtime.
People are willing wait for a service to come back up, but when three weeks has gone by dont be shocked at all the gamers backlash.
another thing, online gaming on the PS3 is not free regardless of what some talking heads want you to believe. The cost of PSN is built into the console itself, therefore gamers have a right a bitch when something they pay for doesnt work.
This whole "year of <insert console>" stuff is such nonsense. This will be remembered as a year when a lot of awesome games came out regardless of platform. Are 1998 or 2007 remembered because one console was better than another or because there was a lot of awesome games?
I agree with people forgetting about it as soon as it comes back online. This is still going to be an incredible year for gamers, PS3 gamers especially. Sony just needs to move on after this whole outage and continue to pump out awesome titles and focus on the release of the NGP(which is awesome) this holiday.
It will still be remembered as the year of PS3 but not for teh right reasons.
from article:
"attempted to mimic Microsoft’s online network, Xbox Live, with Playstation Plus"
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
PSN is mimic of Live? yes
PS+ is mimic of Live? no
PS+ is a discount club, with a couple of other features thrown in.
Yup, PS3 is in trouble. They're talking May 31st for the relaunch.
yep, sony was handed this year on a silver platter but this outage has allowed gamers to look at what the competition is offering. sucks for Sony, but hey PSN users did not ask for a month of downtime.
People are willing wait for a service to come back up, but when three weeks has gone by dont be shocked at all the gamers backlash.
another thing, online gaming on the PS3 is not free regardless of what some talking heads want you to believe. The cost of PSN is built into the console itself, therefore gamers have a right a bitch when something they pay for doesnt work.
The Psn outage is unfortunate but the 'Year of better games than the previous year' can and will continue.