The impact of this is going to be felt for years over at Sony. It is very unlikely that Indie developers will make the PS3 a lead platform for PSN games. Current Indie developers took a heavy revenue hit and sales are going to be sluggish for a while as customers will be weary to purchase anything off of PSN with a credit card (whether the concern is warranted or not). What was most damning is that they didn't notify customers for several days after the network intrusion was discovered. This is all bad. If the message that people take from this is, "Don't let Sony have your credit card info." then the reputation may be hard to shake. On the funny side, I don't expect to see any more snarky RRoD jokes in PS3 games anymore.
Thank god for the disable signatures option.
