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Forums - Gaming - Which One Is Worse? RROD vs. PSN

Rath on 07 May 2011

The PSN outage isn't very bad at all really. It's the data loss that is the real bad part for Sony.



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Fumanchu on 07 May 2011

Well like it states it's a question of perspectives.  For the consumer the complete loss of functionality and repeat occurrances plagued by the RRoD would be deemed worse.  However, you would think that the developer's and publisher's would suffer more from a simultaneous online outage and complete loss of revenue. 



pizzahut451 on 07 May 2011


Did Sony have a bad PSN security? Yes, but thats not the crime, because PSN worked perfectly until someone else got into it. RROD was a straight up huge manufactuirng failure that occured within normal process or usage of the hardware. As for Sony not telling us eralier about this, Microsoft knew about RROD before they released the new Xbox and they even denied failure rates for some times. Not to mention that PSN outage only doesnt let you go online, while RROD destoryed your whole system for good.

In no way are those 2 comaprable...



ThePS3News on 07 May 2011

Lol is this a serious question?? PSN outage has only been 17 days now but its not like the whole damn system is broke. You can still play single player games. Still watch Netflix and blu-ray movies. And still use the web browser. Once you get RROD its game over. :)

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yo_john117 on 07 May 2011
Hyruken said:

Theft is a crime, hardware failure isn't

So it really depends in which context you mean.

 

This.



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melbye on 07 May 2011

Considering that the PSN-problem hasn't affected me yet i say RROD.



NYANKS on 07 May 2011

RROD, without doubt.



smroadkill15 on 07 May 2011
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.     



Squilliam on 07 May 2011

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.



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ThePS3News on 07 May 2011
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.

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