@gamingunited

Different Strokes for different folks.

Hey you are a admin with a bias right? why not just delete a pointless article? Cause its pointless, very pointless

@gamingunited: Try reading reports next time. It was failed because "already fixed. hours ago". That's a little different than this time when it was still down for almost 40 minutes while it was approved.

Edit: @below Not really a way to argue with you as you ignore the difference in news reported immediately and news reported hours later when it was fixed. I don't see anyone here claiming Sony is literally doomed, it's only been joking references for a minor downtime. The importance of reporting that downtime isn't for doom and gloom, but informative to gamers who want to know what's wrong or when it is back up.

"Especially given that this was approved by a single person, this whole thing just stinks of bias."

LMAO!

Maybe a good policy to look at would be that network problem articles aren't really news unless they're for an extended period of time, or caused by something beyond just general network issues....like a hack or something. A verified one....not some speculative one.

Granted, we get much fewer of these than we used to, so maybe it's not that big of a deal.

As far as being informative....I can tell if its down or up just by trying to use the system or service. If it doesn't work, and I want to be informed, N4G isn't really the place I go to find that info, as the information is readily available on PlayStation's website.

Its informing gamers on how they should spend their money. Why buy xbox live if it's down frequently? Oh look an article helping to keep me informed

Tekolie what I wrote is all relevant, not just anecdotal.
My bandwidth is relevant because it supports a whole household's internet access being either poor or solid, mine was solid.

At the time if this article being published the down detector didn't show any issues on PSN, I gave information about all three networks, which is being fair and balanced to all networks, from an actual person's experience.

Just seems your nitpicking because I pointed out that XBox Live was having issues.
My initial comment gave an even amount of info across all three networks.

I'll post as many comments as I like, provided N4G allows me to do so, you're not the one that decides what is and isn't relevant or on topic.
My points were on the topic of network reliability, if the writer of an article talks about it for one company then that opens up the topic of all companies, as it is only balanced and fair to talk about each company's current situation.

so lets just assume I was having problems with PSN and read the comment section to see if someone had solutions or some other experience with PSN:

"My XBox One S kept signing me out because of XBL going down in the UK earlier. "
-hmm not really useful, my problem is with PSN

"Annoying when it takes an age to download Halo 5. "
-yeah umm, not really sure where this is going

"Haven't had any issues with PSN on PS4 or Nintendo's online."
-well this is somewhat useful

@andibandit: It's all relevant, it's about every network, not exactly like it would take anyone very long to read my original post that you're commenting on.

Issues could be related to broadband speed or whatever technical aspect of the network, I gave examples of my experience which shows how things were for me at the time.

I'm not sure why it's such an issue for me to provide real information about my experience.

You two just seem to be way too touchy about a hobby.

In my case, because your comment is a complete non sequitur to this piece. It has nothing to do with Xbox or console wars. It is a mere statement of fact about an important gaming service.

To be fair to Sony, their security may not be as good as Microsoft's but it's a shit tonne better than it was back in days where they lost customer data and internal emails. The important thing is, they have learned from their mistake.

As to the UK issues with XBL etc, we are up the side of a mountain in Wales and we have only ever experienced 2 downtime sessions with PSN and none else where and thats in 4 years

But this article wasn't about every network.

I could start talking about the network problems I'm experiencing at my work place...but they aren't relevant.