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PSN Downtime 8/26

So... The scheduled maintenance today was just that, scheduled maintenance.  After everyone was harping about the ideas that this was the beginning of Home's open beta in NA, or the installment of Life with PS, it turned out to be exactly as SCEA had said it was.  I don't see why everyone is surprised.


LWPS is due out by the end of the month (Sunday at the latest), but will most likely come out with either the PSN store update on Thursday, or during the highly anticipated Firmware 2.5 update that should be out this week.  Hurray for screen capturing, woooo!!!

Needless to say, this is going to be a big week for SCEA and the PSN as a whole.  From the v1.5 of Warhawk being implemented this week on the game's 1-year anniversary, to another big PSN update (The Last Guy, etc.), it would only make sense for them to throw something else in there to make it a 1-2-3 combo to further cement the PSN's place in the world of online gaming.  As HipHopGamer has stated recently in his show, I believe that the PSN has just recently surpassed XBLA with exclusive content and accessibility to users.

But to bring this thing back on home...
PSN downtime was simply maintenance as SCEA has stated, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't expect big things from them later on this week.  For all we know, their maintenance could have just been them preparing the PSN for the implementation of LWPS that will go live later this week... Hopefully within the next 48 hours.

I welcome any questions, comments, or ideas...
PSN: UNCyrus

UNCyrus6444d ago

if only.... it's v.98 right now... that means it's coming soon... v.99 is open beta *sigh*

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Jin_Sakai1d 12h ago (Edited 1d 12h ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio1d 5h ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing1d 3h ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster921d 4h ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit1d 4h ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing1d 4h ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster921d 2h ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Tanktopmaster921d 2h ago

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm

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