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Did Xbox Live's outage contribute to PSN Boom?

The author tries to draw a parallel between the recent Xbox Live outages and the enormous spike in PSN activity in Europe and the US.

From the article: "It's interesting how closely this turn of events for PSN follows the recent "not outage" with Xbox Live. I wonder how many dual-console owners got sick of getting kicked out of CoD4 and decided to try moving their ethernet cable over to their Blu-ray player."

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