PSN Recovers: "The Summer Of Our Discontent Is Behind Us"
See Full ImageSome forgive, others forget. Either way, the PlayStation Network debacle earlier this year hasn't halted the PSN in its tracks.
In good news today, Sony has revealed that Network sales are "currently exceeding those from before the attack."
During a Sony conference at the IFA electronics show and as cited by CNet, Sony CEO Howard Stringer told the audience that the PSN has recovered and is doing better than ever before. In fact, there have been 3 million new customers since the Network returned to life in early June. Said Stringer:
"I'm pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever. We are aggressively expanding its content. We have more than 3 million new customers since the network came back online, and sales are exceeding what we had before the cyberattacks.
This year, we at Sony have been flooded, we've been flattened, we've been hacked, we've been singed. But the summer of our discontent is behind us. The past is a prologue to future possibility."
Things are looking up for Sony, despite a few dire predictions from analysts, as most of the loyal have clearly remained loyal and new customers continue to arrive. Plus, given the fall lineup and the latest PS3 price drop, good times are a comin'.
Tags: psn, playstation network, psn outage, sony
9/1/2011 10:43:25 AM Ben Dutka
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Ultimadream
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 11:07:57 AM
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Highlander
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 11:28:51 AM
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Anyway, British economic struggles in the 70's aside, it's good to see Sony and PSN bouncing back. Honestly, as headline grabbing and horrible as the events were, if we look at the actuality of the whole situation, Sony has been largely vindicated with regards to the apparent end-of-the-world, sky-is-falling, doom merchants, and also in terms of how they dealt with the situation and their customers. if you compare and contrast the impact from other recent large scale security breaches Sony has done pretty well in most regards. Irrespective of the arguments about how good (or not) their security was in the first place, it's clearly better now. Network stability isn't an issue, and PlayStation continues to shine.
I don't expect people will soon forget, it was too long an outage and too potentially damaging a situation. But still, the actual impacts of the situation have been remarkably limited - thankfully.
PSN has come on leaps and bounds from the original implementation. The basic functionality of the network - play - hasn't really altered, but the store and the experience has improved greatly. The amount of content available is awesome. Now, if only we could get the PSP game sale that Europe recently had...
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Qubex
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 11:20:14 PM
Sony should be on guard and treat their customers with respect... they should never forget that...
Q!
"play.experience.enjoy"
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 11:49:56 AM
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WeaponKnight
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:11:29 PM
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People forget that very easily because all they want is play games. When everyone got to play their games together again, worrying about the past is put aside.
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Highlander
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:12:55 PM
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Ultimadream
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:33:04 PM
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:44:44 PM
Unless you're emulating those PS2 games on your PC you're not playing them in HD.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:56:24 PM
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Ludicrous_Liam
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:56:39 PM
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Ultimadream
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 1:13:28 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 1:51:44 PM
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Ultimadream
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 1:58:24 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 2:57:52 PM
It can add super jaggies in certain games, but there's a kind of give and take as it does make things clearer and some textures look better. High end games look great.
I hate that PS3 with software emu won't play Shadow Hearts II :(
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Ultimadream
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 3:03:15 PM
The only games that dont work for me are Tekken Tag... 1 and Jak & Daxter, in comparsion to the 360's backwards compatible line up, thats quite a feat.
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Fane1024
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 3:45:41 AM
You mean component cable; composite is actually what UD described.
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duomaxwell007
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:50:02 PM
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Fane1024
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 3:51:26 AM
I bet it'll be on Saturday or next Thursday.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 12:57:39 PM
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VampDeLeon
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 3:17:22 PM
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Doppel
Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 5:47:13 PM
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ZenChichiri
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 12:52:14 AM
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I actually don't play online religiously though. I do have spurts where I play a lot, but luckily during that time I didn't have any online games on the go. I usually just use it to upload scores and whatnot when I'm playing games like Vanquish, Catherine, or DMC 4.
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___________
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 4:55:17 AM
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hopefully next time when someone comes knocking on the door predicting the apocalypse they dont just slam the door shut on them!
wish they would hurry up and fix the auto updates in the new FW too, ever since the 3.7 FW came out it has not been working properly.
dunno how $ony manage this, but every single time they release a new FW they somehow manage to f*ck something up!
wish they would remove the auto update messages every time i start a game.
gets freaking annoying getting asked the same question every single time i boot up a game!
if the answer was no 2 hours ago, it was no yesterday, it was no the day before that, what makes you think the answer has changed?
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Underdog15
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Thursday, September 01, 2011 @ 11:07:21 AM
During the outage, I played Uncharted 1 and 2, finally got around to going back to Assassin's Creed 1 (skipped it originally), and played Dragon Age 2. I was fine. And we all knew Sony would be fine.
Glad to be reinforced on the issue, though.