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wfz on 09 May 2011
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Squilliam said:
naruball said:
Squilliam said:
naruball said:
Squilliam said:

PSN failure. The PSN failure effects everyone who has a PS3 later in it's life when there are >50M PS3 units sold whereas RROD effected the Xbox 360 earlier and therefore couldn't effect as many people. You also have to remember that the PSN failure effected SOE/PSN and any other Sony online venture.

How exactly does it affect people who only use it as a blu-ray player? Or people who don't play online? Or even people who do not have the time to play right now? (too busy with their exams)

The same way it effects people who never had a console RROD maybe?

I never said it affected every Xbox-360 owner. I only commented on (the bolded) your claim that "The PSN failure effects everyone who has a PS3 later in it's life", which is simply not true.

Noone with a PS3 can get on PSN, true or false?


To be fair, squilliam, the PSN debacle does affect more users, however the impact of the RROD was much more devastating on the individual, I should think. Having PSN down for half a month (or a month) is not as costly to the individual as having their 360 RROD.

However, I think the opposite is true for game developers and publishers. As i've said before, and as Capcom has recently said publicly, having the PSN down is having a huge affect on developers' income. On top of this, Indie games are under even more pressure as they now have to compete with a tighter schedule once the PSN finally comes back up. This is a horrible, horrible, horrible financial situation for developers.

For the individual, RROD was worse (unless your CC info was stolen and used due to this PSN issue), but for the Industry as a whole, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the PSN downtime is worse by far.