Which One Is Worse? RROD vs. PSN

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FinalEvangelion said:

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.

People knew from the start the 360 had failure issues even if MS never admitted to it, so it was never a big secret. When PSN went down no one had any idea what was going on and it took Sony a week to tell everyone their information was compromised. I'm not trying to defend MS in anyway because both circumstances are complete ignorance on both Sony's and MS's behalf, but say if 1000 psn users out of 77 million have their identity stolen, Sony would be royally screwd.