Did Xbox Live's outage contribute to PSN Boom?

mikeslemonade - 697 days 18 hours ago

I know someone who bought a PS3 just because he couldn't access xbl. He never even owned a PS2 or PS1. Microsoft is dropping the ball.

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GamerSigma - 697 days 18 hours ago

If they hear footsteps coming from Sony's end of the hall.

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kevoncox - 697 days 17 hours ago

Lol...
I can't access xbox live so i'll go buy a ps3..
Could it be that both consoles had a crap load of sales this gen so psn usage is up....Could it be that there is a game drought so that single player campains are being completed and mor epeople are turning to the multiplayer action?

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creeping judas - 697 days 14 hours ago

I know one person who decided to go outside for a walk, and get fresh air when their XBL went down. CRAZY?

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mikeslemonade - 697 days 11 hours ago

Why don't you go message him his name is NickH29 and he was so disappointed with live that he bought a PS3 two weeks ago with Unreal 3 and just recently Warhawk. Oh yea that's right you guys who are critcizing me don't even own a PS3. Why don't you guys try a system before bashing it?

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wageslave - 697 days 17 hours ago

Xbox LIVE was never down for a week. That is inaccurate. There were intermittent problems, that only some people encountered.

That does not mean "down". "Down" means 0 service, which never happened.

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Hitman_Legend - 697 days 16 hours ago

please go to the openzone, you saying that is like saying the holocaust never happened...

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socomnick - 697 days 13 hours ago

What wageslave said was 100 percent correct and in no way fanboyish.
I had service all throughout the "outage" only thing that acted funny was cod 4.

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athlon770 - 697 days 18 hours ago

I showed him both the 360 and the PS3 before Christmas, and he had decided to get the 360 (most of our co-workers have a 360), but then the issues with live, and other things related with MS and he decided to pick up the PS3 this last weekend. Enjoying it greatly.

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athlon770 - 697 days 17 hours ago

It wasn't missed so much when I only had 4 or 5 friends with a PS3, now I have over 10 and seeing them sign on while I am in a game and not being able to harrass them. I am looking forward to when Sony releases the next update to include access to the crossbar.

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Ri0tSquad - 697 days 17 hours ago

But we'll get it.......eventually.

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IDemonstalkerXI - 697 days 17 hours ago

Yup, Holiday sales was the reason.

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va_bank - 697 days 16 hours ago

There's no conspiracy - crapload of PS3s were sold over the holdays, and many people set up PSN account the same week. Some still haven't, as they are just playing through the single player games right now.

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killinet247 - 697 days 14 hours ago

I have to disagree with you on this. Neither me nor any of my friends have multiple accounts for each region.

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socomnick - 697 days 13 hours ago

yea my friend has 3 accounts for his ps3 he does it so he can download the stuff from every store.

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DJ - 697 days 12 hours ago

Which means Sony is tracking by console, not by sub accounts. Looks like you don't handle positive Playstation news very well. ^_~

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BloodySinner - 697 days 16 hours ago

You might want to refer to #13's comment.

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Mr PS3 - 697 days 15 hours ago

If there are 10 million PS3 sold there is a good bet there will be 10 million psn users(cause its free) now if everone has 2 accounts there will be 20 million and so on but the bottom line is you can only count the number of PS3 sold to how many psn users there are

Oh and we can make up another account for free if we want and not have to pay to get online like you do on xbox live

I say again sinner

Think a little bit harder

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Sayai jin - 696 days 21 hours ago

@Mr PS3- Many people who brought a PS3 do not own very many games at all and some brought it as a blu-ray player. So jsut because it's free does not mean that they have the same PSN user accounts as units sold. Because if you go by that then you start delving into attach rates and why good game like HS, Drakes, etc did not sell more games. Which they should have becuase ther awesome games. I think they are accounting for double accounts, becuase for Xbox live if you have an gold account and then you get a silver account they are two diffrent accounts with two distinct gamertags. I only have on PSN gamertag. Why do people get multiple accounts other than additional family users?

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Sarick - 696 days 20 hours ago

I think you need to look at the RROD issue. MS still hasn't totally fixed their console. Their still selling new consoles with 10% or higher failure rates.

PSN is a work in progress that worked from the start the way Sony designed it. PSN was designed to be upgraded to the same or near quality of Live. The RROD was a defected product from the start the way it was designed. MS is still releasing products with high failure rates and it took them a long time to officaily announce their consoles where defective in the process. I'm sorry that you look blindly over the fact that MS denied customers the truth solely to keep the public from hearing about RROD issues.

Recently I baught a PS2 game and it was new fresh off the shelf. It was incompatible with the PS3. Within 1 month Sony fixed it after writing them. Sony is trying to make psn better and has even said so on the playstation blogs "we want suggestions and comments"

They've altered several practices and manufactured PS3 products all to suit us as customers.

You telling people they don't care invalidates your reputation as a reliable source. Sure Sony screeed up but now their fingers got smacked for their mistakes. Now their listening to customers again and not offering "i'm sorry" makeup gifts for every time they screw up. It's obvious Sony is desperately trying to get back the customers confidence they lost. MS is doing the same thing but only offer pain kilkers and never seem to be offering a cure.

I'm sorry but multiple RROD have made me sceptical about this whole love hate relationship this gen. I'm sorry gifts are bribes to the customers. It's amazing people are gullible enough to believe that these bribes do anything to actually fix the problems.

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