I would imagine most of the people in that poll were more mainstream or really hardcore online people....people on this website do not fit into those categories at all lol so IF 21% of PS3 only users were really making the jump (which I don't believe will really happen..I doubt it will even be 1%) then it won't be people on this website.

To be fair, around early 2009, we had acouple huge threads about PS3 fans switching. It was right arounnd the time Sony was going bankrupt.

Nah.  I still feel the same about my PS3.  Best darn porn viewer in the house

One thing is clear...

The PS3 community doesnt really care that much about online play.

If this were Xbox live down, it would be like the Zombie apocolypse.

We need to find out about people with both systems, if they have changed their attitudes and now prefer one over the other because of this.

Xbox live has been down before you know, for like 13 days. There was no Zombie apocolypse. It's down, it's not dead. We have lives and frankly the people outraged from the mainstream don't really care for online anyway. 

Actually I believed all you guys that were saying this but in reality it was intermitent service for a week (I'm not sure on the exact time frame because no one told me a definitive time period) or so....its all in this thread--http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=128029&page=1&str=1591523857#

13, 7 days I don't really care, it was still down and no one cared. The biggest issue is not the fact PSN is down, it's the fact people's info might be stolen. If you can't live without online gaming for 2 weeks, that's a personal issue PSN can't fix.

Made my night.

I'm not sure that many people on this sight understand the concept of random sampling of large populations and the associated error and confidence level.

I'm not supporting the original survey, as I don't know the particulars of how it was conducted, but a 2100 sample size is actuallly not that bad.  It is also significantly more accurate (to multiple magnitudes) than responses culled from a PS3 heavy fanbase (ie VGChartz).

That being said, even if the sample was done with statistically sound methods with high confidence in an acceptable error rate, there is no indication that the survey looked for INTENT to switch, rather simply that the concerns over the PSN breach made them consider a switch.

I am rather surprised by the number of people who say they don't care, or don't play online that much though; my PS3 has always admittedly been my secondary system, so not using the PSN for me, is understandable.  For those who it IS the primary/favored system though, I'm shocked at the number that seem to not care the on-line is down.

To be honest, if this was Live that was down, I'd pissed.  One or two days, who cares...>1 week?  Yep, I'd be pissed.