Speaking to Industry Gamers, PixelJunk head Dylan Cuthbert has warned about the impact the PSN downtime (and lack of contact from Sony) is having for developers, especially indie ones.
“At the moment I think they are running around patching holes etc., and in a week or two they’ll have something more concrete to say,” said Dylan, whose recent PS3 content under the PixelJunk banner is almost entirely online only.
Nobody yet knows whether Sony are going to compensate developers and publishers for lost revenue, but Dylan clearly thinks they should be thinking hard about doing so.
“I have no idea yet what Sony are going to do to help developers such as ourselves,” he said, “but I have a feeling they are thinking about doing something or they will lose developers which of course is pretty bad for them.”
This is in addition to Capcom, who claim the downtime is potentially costing them millions. Brink is out this week, and there’s still no sign of the network being up in time for PS3 owners.
RudeAwakening
Yea i loved sony since the ps one days but im starting to lose patience with their handling of this situation, they really haven’t put themselves in any sort of good light.
They should of remedied this PSN crisis days ago, and now its starting to affect developers in a bad way.
Dunks
Got to say, slightly worried for the Sony/Playstation brand. This was meant to be the Sony year for memorable games… Im sure they’ll repair things (relationships and PSN) but somethings might be harmed in the lead up…
Pete_UK
I’m giving it till Thursday lunchtime; if PSN’s not up by then, I’ll be getting Brink on the PC. Sony really need to address the information flow – a week between non-updates really is beyond.
Pete_UK
I’ve also just noticed that the post dates on the EU blog don’t seem to make sense; I’m pretty certain we didn’t see four blog posts on the 6th.
Dunks
No doubt there’s a bunch of people thinking the same thing…
Foxhound_Solid
Playstation will be fine.