From being allegedly unhackable ,to being hacked by pen and paper, to then being cited as "the most breached piece of technology" by some articles and have credit card info comprimised.......it's not been great for sony to say the least.

Where does this recent mishap (which unfolded basically in the span of a year) rank to you in the very exclusive list of console mishaps?

lol while i have nuttin to add since its 3am, i wanna post here so i can see what others have to say when i wake up tomorrow...

fun idea for a thread :)

I would think this gen, RROD and this would be rather close... depending how much longer this goes on it could overtake RROD imo

RROD was pretty bad. I would have said RROD until i found out the hackers got my info.Thats messup up and if they have my credit card details then it will be the biggest fiasco ever especially with sonys handling of the affair.When my launch console RROD'd on me after 2 years i sent it away free and got it back 2 days later it works to this day:)

It's too early to say, IMO. At least with RRoD, Microsoft was able to offer free replacements to quash resentment. On the other hand, a failure rate that high was pretty catastrophic to the Xbox reputation, which wasn't very good to begin with.

Where this ranks depends largely on whether people have their credit card information sold. If people start losing cards left and right, this could edge out RRoD as the biggest clusterfuck in console history. But right now, it's mostly an inconenience and worrisome, nothing more.

Change your CC numbers and passwords. What else can they do to you? Send you scam emails? They don't have my SSN number, and I don't think I put in my accurate year for my DOB on my PS3. Lol.

Also some of you seem to be forgetting that Sony isn't the person or persons stealing your information here. Stop putting a full force blame solely on them.

RROD takes the cake. This isn't that big of a deal yet.

well not sure how true, cause it was on the news and the news is usually complete bull.

but last night on the news they mentioned this ps3 and the newscaster said the whole doom speech of how your name, address, email, birthdate, credit card, ect you name it were stolen from 70 million ps3 owners.

but the thing that surprised me was when after that he mentioned how this could cost sony up to 23 BILLION dollars.  I have no idea how valid this number is and where he got it, but if that is true, then this totally trumps red ring of death on all accounts. 

I mean first of all, whats worse, having to get a new 360 cause your got RROD, or having the paranoia that someone has all your personal info for identity theft or just plain theft.  and what was RROD costs?  like 5 billion or something?  and this potentially 20 billion. 

though take this all with grain of salt, it was on the news.  But again, 90% of people are idiots, so theyw ill all believe this to be 1000% true.  Hell my parents are like total anti video games and don't ever pay attention or look at anything game related and they asked me about this

I think people are overreacting to this whole thing personally. Yeah, it's bad, but it's not unsalvageable, and at least now Sony will know where there security gaps are. Silver linings. Personal info being taken is a pretty awful thing though, but hopefully people are smart enough not to use the same password for their gaming as they might use for internet banking. As for where it rates on my fiasco chart? Currently equal to RROD, though if Sony keep this up for too much longer, it could easily exceed the levels of fail in RROD.

I retract my former statement