News - PlayStation Network downtime costs studio "thousands," but Sony's bill could r

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Small developers suffer over PSN downtime, but Sony's costs could run into millions.

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[aidanjt]

I don't have the slightest bit of sympathy for Sony, TBH. It was their ludicrously insecure architecture which allowed the breech in the first place. And while losing millions or billions sounds more impressive on a spread sheet. Losing thousands in a week can put a small studio out of business. Sony will just offload that expense on future victi.. I mean customers.

[.havoc]

If Sony want to keep the PSN alive...which is far easier said than done now...it would be wise of them to help the small developers and studios, whether it by financial compensation, investment, free license to develop for the PS3 or something else much smarter which I can't be arsed to think of.

Just look at the thriving economy of the Xbox Arcade and you can see the huge amount of effort gone into the network - PS3 just doesnt have that. And I got both consoles - i rarely browse Sony's offering despite it being the console I use more often!

And as a PS3 owner - i think all 77 million account holders should be compensated...with:

A. A free game/voucher

B. The opportunity to meet the development team responsible - and have a free punch/kick/slap - to each one. 77 million kicks to ones gentleman area shall be rather amusing...for us.

[OilSheikh]

Well, you pay for XBOX, that's why it's so beautiful. It's someone's sole paid job to look after XBOX.

Don't think that's the case with Sony. IMO, one of their internal teams must have developed it at first and once it got working, that's it!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

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