I'm guessing you never have played many PC games before... cause... they don''t.  I mean... you keep making arguements as if this is some kind of unheard of non implemented thing...

You do realize switching like that opens up cheating, you go on a hacking server get all the best items and max level then go back to official ones not to mention piracy since the servers have to actually have the code to run it it's just a mess of piracy and cheating waiting to happen and has happened on pc

You know nothing of what you're talking about and should stop and listen to those that do.  You know that no matter how much you cheat in games like Monster Hunter Tri and Phantasy Star Online even with the best equipment if you still suck at the game you won't be at that much of an advantage, you should ask all the PSP players on MHF2 that use that gamesave on Gamefaqs VNwater  

Opening up doesn't open some gateway to piracy, apparently promising services and then taking them out of your system does anyway those that are currently hacking the PS3 can pirate all they want and still play on official servers, in fact that works for all three consoles, know why?  Cause they don't have ways against that like PC titles, like product keys so no two people with the same key can play online.  

You're fighting a losing battle here, please just stop and listen, thanks.

So you're saying yes everyone can cheat but I don't care? And as far as I'm aware pirated games can't be played online on ps3 atleast not for long 

Then you're not aware at all.  The online system has no way of checking to see if your game is an original or not this is why people created product keys. 

And people will cheat no matter what game it is or how open it is, you're being a bit foolish to think cheating doesn't already happen a lot on PSN with it being closed, lets see, you've got the massive CoD hacks that aren't even taken down anymore cause the people that run those servers, Infinity Ward, doesn't seem to care anymore and there are no updates (if you had some private servers hackers like that would be banned on sight) , though the reason for the lack of updates is probably due to the closed service IE with Sony's locked down service you're only able to allowed so much you can let people download then Sony starts charging the company and they obviously don't like that.

I can go onto the cheating done on Demons Souls as well, but it falls under the Monster Hunter and Phantasy Star logic, you can cheat your way to the top, you still suck at the game

You require fake firmware to play pirated games thats what Sony can detect they couldn't use that method if they didn't have all the servers and we'd have to go to the crappy protection that doesn't work well on pc and yes I'm aware that theres cheating but it's rare and usually a problem with how the games online was set up or a glich in the game, pc gaming is worse on both cheating and piracy and like I pointed out before this is a once event it's not happening again, if everyone had their own servers something like this would be happening every month to some game or another  

omg someone please give me a power up rewards coupon for the ps3!!!

I'll buy one tomorrow!

I must say that it's very possible that Sony have been planning a pricedrop regardless of what has happened. They might even consider this opportune.

Give me a second. I'll try to see how to find it... 

No... just no... PC gaming is worse on cheating if you A venture to cheating servers to begin with or B developer doesn't support the game well, but point B goes for any service like how CoD4 on PSN was hacked to death  

You really don't seem to get it, there are a multitude of actions taken to prevent everything you're talking about, your concerns aren't even a factor for people who game on PC, but what PC gamers would hate is if some game had only one service you could go through to connect to their games and for that service to go down for 3 weeks or more. 

And no PSN doesn't detect fake firmware well, PSP is the perfect example of that, cause whenever a new firmware is detected and taken out hackers modify it to get around security... it doesn't stop all at once my friend, it's just like beliving something is "unhackable" it really just takes some smart people, a decent bit of drive, and some time.  PSN servers will come up again, if there was a team dedicated to hacking it again and they weren't some lame people wanting to do a basic DDoS attack, they would make their way back in eventually.