Friend 1 - i'm bored as fuck at home, i have nothing to do at all

Friend 2 - I hope we get like 1-2 games off psn or like dlc or something...

F1 - Definitely not.

Me - you know theres always single player

F1 - I hate single player

F2- i dont like single player

Friend 3 - Single player is for fag pussies

Legit conversation between me and not too close friends at school during lunch.

I think you need to get some new friends. These ones seem to have something wrong with their brains.

The problem is Lunchs in my school suck and i can't sit with my best friends because there in another lunch wave so i just sit with the casual class friends instead of by myself of course, and i understand, my brain wasn't computing properly after i heard all that

actuall i heard that current ps3 owners are goign to have to sell back their ps3s to make up for the loss

If hackers decide to use all the data they may have right now, definitely. Imagine the chaos. Sony might never recover.

If PSN comes back normally after a few days, then only PSN sales will take a big hit. PSN cards are not available everywhere.

What makes things worse is that some people were saying that cc information is not safe when you use PSN months before this.

I do think it might hurt some things, it will seriously hurt the PSN's image, and that might hurt things in a while but I am not too sure, I do feel a little concerned especially as PSN is VERY important for Sony

PSN is also the basis of Qriocity, which is a major part of their multimedia strategy for their newly announced tablets, Vaio PCs, BRAVIA TVs and they are coming to the Sony Ericsson smartphones too soon, so if this comprimises this then that could be a major issue beyond just PlayStation

It's now hit mainstream media, 2nd most looked at item on the bbc network (the biggest media network in the world).

That exposure will have some affect for sure. The amount of affect will be on how long it takes to sort out and stopping it from happening again. Over the next week there will be more reports about it. But if they fix it and the same thing happens again meaning they have to repeat the process it will have a massive affect on it.

If it is sorted out soon and does not happen again in the first day or two it will be forgotten by the vast majority of people and have zero affect at all on sales.

If however it turns out all our details and credit cards were taken i imagine the government will start getting involved. regardless of being hacked it will raise questions about how a company can give 70m peoples data away so easily. I think we will see a lot of that type of reporting in the next day or so.

IT'S OVER! PS3 IS FINISHED!

I think sales might be negatively effected now, but how much depends on how well sony handles this, or how well the media treats this. 

Maybe but probably it will affect more on SW sales rather than HW sales.

And then we have to consider PSN is free, and Xboxlive is a paid service(it's competition), there are probably people who's interested at buying PS3 because of the free service before the downtime, they probably gonna wait for PSN to come back online instead of buying an Xbox360 and pay for what is supposed to be free on PSN.