| smroadkill15 said: Not playing online for a few weeks was never that big of a deal, but the whole Sony waited a week to tell everyone that 77 million psn accounts got their information comprised was. Then Sony just figuring out SOE also got hacked the same time PSN was looks pretty damn bad. From a gamers stand point the RROD might look worse, but if you look from the companies standpoint this could possibly be a bigger blow to Sony especially if they get hacked again. |
We have to remember that Microsoft took 1.5 years to say that the failure rate was abnormally high on the 360. They kept saying it was normal, even when they knew that there were some problems all along (Dean Takahashi has a really good article on that).
From how much it's going to cost the companies, we don't know what it will be for Sony when all said and done. I'll reserve my judgement on that.
As far as recieving bad / good press, the gaming media tends to be more forgiving toward Microsoft than Nintendo or Sony.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
