The PSN issue continues to trundle along, picking up rumours and creating doubts and fears along the way. Sony look set to finally address those fears and hopefully give their customers some more concrete indication of the network’s schedule of return with a press conference tomorrow.
Kazuo Hirai is to talk to the world’s press at the conference in Japan tomorrow at 2PM, local time (that’s 5AM 6AM in the UK or midnight 1AM, EST). It is obviously unknown what Kaz will say but we’d expect some further (or at least more detailed) information about exactly what was compromised, how it was stored and a more detailed road map for switching on what we hope will be a new and improved service.
The PSN hack and subsequent downtime has made international news, doubtless damaging Sony’s reputation as well as its stock price. Hopefully this press conference is the first step towards regaining consumer trust and keeping a more regular and informative communication with their consumers.
Source: Reuters
TSBonyman
I hope Sony have some more reassuring news to share with us or at least tie down some of the rumour and speculation that’s currently hopping around the web.
gaffers101
Here, here I just want them to give us the facts and a solution. There’s no point in beating about the bush.
SilverCider
I’ll be happy as soon as I can log back into PSN so that I can take my B-Spec drivers offline on GT5 and use them! They’re all currently locked away and of no use whilst PSN is down :'(
wick15
Good that we will get a much more detailed insight into what has been happening. Hopefully we shall also get a solid date for when the service is going to return. With any luck we might also get some shiny new features, although it’s very important. I will be glad to see the back of all this and I’m sure Sony will as well.
wick15
*not very important.
Sorry, doing this from my phone.
yzfmike
What I find amusing was everyone it seemed was worrying about their trophy’s and such. The trophy’s are already on the ps3 and don’t sync until you turn on the system or manually update it. I guess there are some paranoid people out there. I am not worried much about my account. I know Sony will make things better, and I am not jumping ship to Xbox. Why pay $50 errr $60 bucks a year to do many of the same things.
fattyuk
Ooohhh great is it gonna be streamed online do you know?
AG2297
According to Twitter (MusterBuster) not that people know of as it will be a press event and therefore already get tons of coverage. That may have changed though, as that was this morning and I haven’t been paying that much attention on this subject to be quite honest!
Winkle
Yeah its streamed live in Playstation Home…
SilverCider
I see what you did there :P
Raider197
*tipping of imaginary tophat*
fattyuk
Is it being streamed online does anyone know?
The Lone Steven
I think Sony will try their best to regain the trust between company and consumer. I would imagine that they may annouce that they are going to compensat everyone.They proabaly tell the press that they are doing an investigation into it and will proscute the hacker to the full extent to the law.
iAvernus
This whole thing makes Sony look like a big joke. Hackers brought them to their knees, and held their PS customers CC info to ransom. Chances are they sold them already.
How could they take SOOOO much info, and only found out 3 days later? Why take so long to tell people what happened, instead of hide behind their maintenance screen?
I mean we heard Sony’s response, but that’s not GOOD ENOUGH! Not from a billion dollar company. I admit my bitching isn’t going to help solve the situation, but I feel after all this, I have the right to whine, bitch, and cry about it if I want to =)
C’mon Sony!
fattyuk
You really don’t have a clue do you.
But yes as you state you can bitch whine and cry as much about it as you like.
iAvernus
I don’t have a clue? I’ve been following this since day one. Actually I was one that was playing online and got logged off when it happened.
You mind telling me what exactly I don’t have a clue about? Or is that trolling comments all you have for me?
Mike
iAvernus makes a valid point and even though I still support Sony, I’m still majorly pissed off with them for my personal details potentially being obtained. As has been said previously, it’s great that Sony will have stronger systems in place, but that still doesn’t change the fact that our details are already out there.
Let him/her bitch and moan :P
MrIrving
Shouls I be concerned that I’ve not received an e-mail from Sony yet?
Raider197
I haven’t gotten one either.
Mike
Sony just don’t love you guys enough ^.^
Winkle
Don’t worry If Sony haven’t sent you an email by now, the hackers soon will…
TURRICAN-808
lol
aerobes
There was/is a thread concerning this in the forums. Seems some have while others haven’t. I’m guessing it just takes time to send 77 million emails out though I have no idea to be honest with you.
Just for the record, mine turned up on the 27th.
In summary, I wouldn’t worry if I were you.
skibadee
it reads the same as the blog message no different.
The Lone Steven
I think they don’t send them out to Sub account holders. That could explain why you haven’t got one.
MrIrving
Sorry ‘should’ not shouls
Greek-BBQ
Sony look very bad after this hack and would have probably put people off buying a ps3. However I don’t want to criticise Sony too much since I’m guessing this hack could have affected the xbox if it was targeted, or other consoles etc, and I’m guessing Sony had strong security implemented. But I don’t know if the general public non-gaming geeks will share the same view I hold, so I think it will be tough for Sony to stand back up. This event will probably have some sort of an affect on ps4 sales as well. But I hope Sony regain themselves, and il be there to support them, unless they come out saying data wasn’t properly protected haha.