Last weekend, Sony told consumers that the PlayStation Network should be back up and running within a week. As you may have noticed, a week's gone by, and you still can't play Warhawk. Sony has therefore made a new announcement, stating that the PSN outage is back to "indefinite" status.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't give up on me PSN. You're making Wii's online service more interesting. What is the excuse for not being online?
"When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week," said Patrick Seybold. "We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system.
"We know many of you are wanting to play games online, chat with your friends and enjoy all of the services PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have to offer, and trust me when I say we’re doing everything we can to make it happen. We will update you with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience of this network outage."
I wanna play on the PSN, even though I don't own a PS3. I feel like the whole world is coming to an end. Someone please wake me up.
Sony has revealed that the PlayStation Network could be down for the entirety of this month, with its grand return planned sometime before May 31, 2011. That's the current plan, anyway.
The deadline was announced by Shigenori Yoshida in a Bloomberg interview. Even then, however, the spokesman made sure to say he was "uncertain" on specific dates.
Jim Sterling's Edit: Bloomberg's wording implies this will include all services, such as PlayStation Store. That could just be vague wording though. Destructoid has contacted Sony for clarification
NOOOO! Not May 31st. Nintendo could use this as an advantage to release the 3DS Virtual Store for their Virtual Console and 3DSWare.
Meanwhile, in other news, you are all aware of Sonic Generations coming out for 360 and PS3. Yeah, the same blue hedgehog who's been destroying factories of Robotnik Enterprises since 1991. You are evil, Mr Anti-Business Hedgehog. Word has it that the 360/PS3 exclusive Sonic title is coming to 3DS. And in addition, RAyman: Origins is coming to Wii and DS.
Looks like Gamestop may have outed a couple new 3DS games. Both Time Crisis and Sonic Generations appear appear on a new Gamestop listing, found at the link below. I'm feeling lukewarm towards the Time Crisis reveal, but Sonic Generations on the 3DS could be a perfect fit. I don't imagine that the port would require much of a graphical downgrade, and the 3D display could do a lot to make the "green eyed" Sonic sections more visually compelling.
Maybe the biggest surprise here is seeing Rayman Origins coming to the Wii and the DS; two consoles that many have left for dead at this point in their careers. Assuming that the the Wii's successor will be backwards compatible, I could see how this decision might work, as maxing out your potential user base is never a bad idea. Still, it would have been nice to see classic Rayman in glasses free 3D. Maybe next time.
SEGA, what are you doing? Are you making the same mistake that you did with Sonic Next-Gen? Well that game never had a handheld port. But I still make myself clear, even if my audience doesn't understand me.
As for Rayman, hey, how are those Rabbids handling the news?
Oh yeah. They're not taking it good
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