Oh my Gee Wiz, Sony!

**CorruptedDragon** · 04-21-2011 07:42 PM

So now one of the virtues of the ps3 is that you can instead play a game on a totally different platform? LOL doesn't that defeat the purpose of the system?
"Oh lolz, ps3 is down but its all good in the hood, i can play my pc. Sony rocks!"

Wasn't there a huge outage about a year or so ago? I seem to recall a big thread about it and people panicking like it was the end of the world.

**Onslaught X** · 04-21-2011 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by coldfoot

Isn't this the first wide scale PSN outage that lasted more than a few hours? Didn't XBL have a week of outage during Christmas 2007?

Besides, people who have PS3 copies of portal can play on steam while the issue is resolved

I'd rather have the 200-300 bucks I saved so far by not going with XBL.

There was one that lasted for a whole day last year. And along with it, you couldn't play like 90% of all games due to some internal clock issue

**michealo** · 04-21-2011 07:57 PM

How can anyone forget apocalyps3?

**TheAnalogKid** · 04-21-2011 08:03 PM

Ah. Well, no luck tonight. Looks like I was one of the lucky few who could get online last night.

**RedRedSuit** · 04-21-2011 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by michealo

How can anyone forget apocalyps3?

I will never forget it. I couldn't play shit, and there was actually a chance it wasn't going to correct itself.

**Averry** · 04-21-2011 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by coldfoot

Isn't this the first wide scale PSN outage that lasted more than a few hours? Didn't XBL have a week of outage during Christmas 2007?

Besides, people who have PS3 copies of portal can play on steam while the issue is resolved

I'd rather have the 200-300 bucks I saved so far by not going with XBL.

It was like a week of intermittent problems, but not all of Xbox live was down.

**BBM128** · 04-21-2011 10:19 PM

I somehow doubt that this is just some random maintenance. If it is, as some are speculating, a result of hackers from Anonymous, that's just immature.

**hdinred** · 04-21-2011 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by BBM128

I somehow doubt that this is just some random maintenance. If it is, as some are speculating, a result of hackers from Anonymous, that's just immature.

It does suck, if that is the case.

Still, if the bank tells you your money’s gone, the last thing you want to hear is: “it’s the robber’s fault.”

**coldfoot** · 04-21-2011 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Onslaught X

There was one that lasted for a whole day last year. And along with it, you couldn't play like 90% of all games due to some internal clock issue

Apocalyps3 wasn't a PSN issue, it was a software bug on Fat PS3's. I had a slim and did not suffer from that issue personally.

PSN as a service has been very reliable until this outage. Suffering from apocalyps3 for one day also surely beats the hardware issues the 360 had.

**hdinred** · 04-21-2011 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by coldfoot

Apocalyps3 wasn't a PSN issue, it was a software bug on Fat PS3's. I had a slim and did not suffer from that issue personally.

PSN as a service has been very reliable until this outage. Suffering from apocalyps3 for one day also surely beats the hardware issues the 360 had.

Cost of XBL.. hardware reliability.. PC instead.. if it’s not a big deal, why the entire playbook?

**upgrayedd** · 04-21-2011 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by coldfoot

Apocalyps3 wasn't a PSN issue, it was a software bug on Fat PS3's. I had a slim and did not suffer from that issue personally.

PSN as a service has been very reliable until this outage. Suffering from apocalyps3 for one day also surely beats the hardware issues the 360 had.

how does hardware compare to network issues?

**tormond** · 04-21-2011 11:47 PM

Amazing thing is that he has saved $300 from not having XBL (not sure how as it would have had to have been retal price paid every onth to get that high.. hell I just reupped for a year yesterday for $29 and that was from a link on the dashboard.. And I keep reading about folks with YLOD and $150 repair bills (actually they raised the price to what I am not sure now) while MS just set aside a chunk of cash and fixed em for free for folks..(I had a launch console and never had an issue with it.. have 3 now (2 new slims and a old 60GB one and never had an issue with them either.. or the 3 PS3s I have owned (down to 1 there now) and still have less money in a single 360+Live from launch than the launch PS3

OK gonna quit posting and go play online..since I can

**coldfoot** · 04-22-2011 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by upgrayedd

how does hardware compare to network issues?

I'll repeat: Apocalyps3 was not a PSN issue, it was a bug in the PS3 consoles itself, since many PS3's (slims) were unaffected by it. PSN was up and running that day, the servers were fine. PSN hasn't been down for long before this incident.

**Onslaught X** · 04-22-2011 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by coldfoot

I'll repeat: Apocalyps3 was not a PSN issue, it was a bug in the PS3 consoles itself, since many PS3's (slims) were unaffected by it. PSN was up and running that day, the servers were fine. PSN hasn't been down for long before this incident.

Doesn't matter, wasn't accessible. To us, it doesn't make a difference. Beyond that there's been plenty of 6 hour (scheduled) maintenance things that they've had.

**chipvideo** · 04-22-2011 01:19 AM

We get it cold. It was bad code written by Sony Engineers.

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