The Welcome Back is attached to old PSN accounts... before the hack... the PS3 could be new but the account has to be created before the hack.

I guess I'll have to use the 2nd account someone gave me.

Stringer should step down, anyway. He's not exactly been Sony's grand saviour, the company is still very much stuck in the 90s, in many regards. I'm also worried that he's giving a stale impression of Western CEOs to Japanese share-holders, and if there's one thing Japan doesn't need right now, is a reversal in terms of opening up its businesses to foreign influences.

I agree with this.

I don't necessarily agree that Stringer should step down.  Firstly, NO executive could prevent the hacker attacks, and - while Sony has its problems like any other company - they are making inroads in some respects.  Plus, who would you suggest as a replacement? Mr. Riiiiiiiidge Racer?  Crazy Ken?  Stringer may not be the end-all-be-all of CEO's, but he isn't bad.

the rest are probably cfw users and alts i know most have 2-5 alts they dont occasionally use

What exactly do they mean by returned? On my US psn account I just downloaded my free games and haven't used psn since then. On my JP psn account I still haven't bothered to do anything besides change my password because the psn store is still down in Japan. There are no free games in Japan until the psn store is back up.(jp psn works for playing games but no store functions are available)

If they consider changing my password and/or downloading my free games as "returning" then I guess I have. To be honest if they weren't giving out free games I wouldn't have even bothered with psn at all.

No way 90% of PSN accounts returned. Maybe they are counting accounts that were active recently before PSN went down. Some people have 10+ accounts and no way they used them all again.

Playstation. Ericsson. Vaio. Walkman. These are all brands that either used to be the biggest in their industry, or one of. They have all diminished in popularity, and Stringer has done little to reverse this. The company is still very much composed of separate parts. I hear Bravia is a loss-incurring division (though, don't quote me on this). Going into the future, Sony is heavily invested in 3D technologies... which may, or may not kick off (and, even if it does, there's no guarantee Sony will be the main beneficiary from this). Hacking aside, it's online services are disjointed. From what I can think of, it's most successful elements are its movie and music businesses... according to the article, Sony Pictures has been struggling, recently. And the music industry isn't a safe one to be in, at the moment.

Sony has a lot of problems, but it's not doomed. But it needs a dynamic and reforming CEO, Stringer hasn't proved that he's enough. Actually, Kaz could be a good choice.... he's managed to turn it around for the Playstation division, in recent years. He might have some good ideas for the company, too.

More accounts means more free games and plus time....

I'm very happy to obtain almost all the welcome back games. I have asian, jp, us and european accounts, maybe i will miss one because i don't have a latin america account(ironic, i'm brazilian lol)