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1 in 5 PSN users thinking of switching to Xbox Live
Posted: 01.05.2011 23:57 by JonahFalcon Comments: 12
The Angry Video Game Nerd is NOT PLEASED.
CouponCodes4U surveyed over 2100 PlayStation Network users on whether the outage and security breakdown of user information had soured them enough to consider switching from PSN to Xbox Live, and one out of every 5 users stated, yes, it did.

CouponCodes4U Chairman Mark Person commented on the survey, "As a video gamer myself, this data theft is especially worrying and I'm not altogether surprised that Sony are likely to see an exodus to console competitors. As hackers get more and more intelligent, companies simply have to keep up. Sony has a responsibility to its millions of customers to protect personal details and this data theft proves that they weren't capable of doing so. It's clear that gamers across the country have decided that this failing is enough to switch their allegiances to the console's closest rival."

GameStation had been offering trades of PlayStation 3's for Xbox 360's during the outage, and was doing pretty well. Sony's loss is definitely Microsoft's gain.

Comments

By djole381 (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
djole381
I wouldn't be surprised if M$ had anything to do with PSN outage.
By K3Spice (SI Core) on May 02, 2011
K3Spice
People do seem to blame Microsoft, but you really do not know who did it and why. I will not judge on this kind of things, because there is no hard proof pointing at Microsoft.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
JonahFalcon
Microsoft is not in the business of selling user information, and by the way, why would they need to? PSN is significantly worse than Live. In other words: there's no competition.
By Xyfer117 (SI Core) on May 02, 2011
Xyfer117
I saw someone walk INTO a gamestation store with a ps3 box and a bag of which i assume was full of games and that was day 3 of PSN going down i think, when buying portal 2, 2 days ago, the guy in the game store mentioned how many people have been in over the past week and traded their playstation 3's in for a 360.
And i personally doubt MS had anything to do with the PSN going down.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
JonahFalcon
Sony is Sony's worst enemy.
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
FoolWolf
"Sony is Sony's worst enemy." in all simplicity - that is so true!

Personally, I would give up my PS3 if I could get something for it used, and the Xbox and Kinect could be bought cheaply and I knew that the games I once bought oln the Xbox 360 would be their still...
Now, I guess the PS3 will just be for BlueRay and guitar heroo and the few games already bought....
By Revan (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
Revan
I wouldn't put too much trust in Live. Whats to stop anyone from hacking into it?
And it's a load of BS that they hacked PSN just to piss Sony off. Why hack into PSN and then steal all it's Users info?
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
JonahFalcon
For one, the security is not on the 360 itself. This whole mess started because the rootkey allows hackers to make the system think they're admins. The 360 is one big DRM box that has no access to the sensitive parts of Live. For another, MS actually encrypted their data. Lastly, the 360 has been hacked a long time ago. MS doesn't care if you hack it until you come online - then they ban your machine.

The design of the PS3 made it possible.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on May 02, 2011
herodotus
The bootom line for me is that Sony, Microsoft (a big target for Hackers) and all organisations that are in the line of fire on playing Defence all the time. They are having to adapt to the technology and attack tactics being used against them, and this means a losing strategy evry time. If the Hackers (or Cyber Terrorists as they rightfully should be known) set their sites on damaging a service, software or a company...it's going to happen.
By PowerJack (SI Elite) on May 02, 2011
PowerJack
herodotus is right its like playing Castle Defense with only the castle.
By Odynee (SI Veteran Member) on May 04, 2011
Odynee
The head of this guy is scary :D
By chiefone (SI Veteran Member) on May 04, 2011
chiefone
So long as Xbox live costs, I wont be switching. I don't play online that much, so I would be a waste for me to pay. On the occasion that I do want to play online, I want it to be there.