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Cthulhu Steev

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Why don't you just wait till they say it's back up rather than battering at the door rabidly ? You could be doing more harm than good.

Rabidly battering at the door.

Fuck off with your snide digs.

I've tried it a couple of times a week, and just the once when I've turned my PS3 on. Last night I tried it three times in an hour because it was doing something odd.

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Rabidly battering at the door.

Fuck off with your snide digs.

I've tried it a couple of times a week, and just the once when I've turned my PS3 on. Last night I tried it three times in an hour because it was doing something odd.

Ooft - chill pill required - it's nothing to get stressed about it's just an online space is all.

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So how do we reckon Sony are going to play it at the E3 conference? A week or so ago I think they may just have soldiered on and ignored it but I think it's gone past that now, my money would be Jack Tretton in full on false-humility mode doing a short apology at the start and then washing away the taste with an announcement. Although, given their awful handling of PR throughout this, the outside long odds choice is that they wheel on the tedious Kevin Butler actor and have him make jokes about it.

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Jarik

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Seeing as this is just the latest in a long time of impediments to me playing the PS3 online (long story) & at it happened at the exact time of the release of the online experience I was most looking forward to (Portal 2 co-op) I sometimes wonder if someone is trying to tell me something, & those 360 Slims in my local game store seem ever more tempting... :unsure:

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Cthulhu Steev

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So how do we reckon Sony are going to play it at the E3 conference? A week or so ago I think they may just have soldiered on and ignored it but I think it's gone past that now, my money would be Jack Tretton in full on false-humility mode doing a short apology at the start and then washing away the taste with an announcement. Although, given their awful handling of PR throughout this, the outside long odds choice is that they wheel on the tedious Kevin Butler actor and have him make jokes about it.

They're going to have to persuade Gabe and GlaDOS to initiate another surprise :lol:

It's going to be a very difficult E3 for them, that's for sure.

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I wish I had any idea what that was supposed to mean, Disciple. But don't bother explaining it.

So why would you ask except to be facetious or to troll? Strange.

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Robo_1

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So how do we reckon Sony are going to play it at the E3 conference? A week or so ago I think they may just have soldiered on and ignored it but I think it's gone past that now, my money would be Jack Tretton in full on false-humility mode doing a short apology at the start and then washing away the taste with an announcement. Although, given their awful PR throughout this, the outside long odds choice is that they wheel on the tedious Kevin Butler actor and have him make jokes about it.

I don't think they've got any choice but to address this head on. In many respects, having E3 so soon after the attack is ideal, as they've got a public platform from which they can use to both respond directly to the attack, and hopefully stop the rot with a series of positive announcements.

There was a string of rumours from Endgadget a few weeks back, about the PSN coming back in a 2.0 guise with added functionality, not least the much asked for cross game chat option:

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Apparently the account used to post that has been a credible source of information in the past, so who knows. The move to a new hosting facility had already been planned, and cross game chat has been a feature of developer firmware for a while now, with insider sources making numerous slips that it's either coming soon or that it at least exists. Maybe the new servers somehow facilitate this for everyone, and it's safe to say that Sony have been working on integrating it into consumer firmware for a while now, with it even appearing as a PS+ feature on Sony's own site at one point.

It certainly won't appear day one, as they'll be stress testing the network and just making sure it's stable, never mind throwing in a totally new and bandwidth heavy feature, however I wouldn't be at all surprised if they announced it (and hopefully more) at E3. I think this would go a long way to making amends with gamers, as it's currently the most requested feature from current users.

Outside of that, there are some fairly credible tech reports that have led a one man crusade from a guy called Jeff Rigby, who has posted numerous compelling articles which suggest PS3 will not only be getting a webkit based browser in the near future, but that the entire PS3 XMB could be re-written in a webkit compatible graphics library called Cairo. This should bring with it numerous benefits, most notably a quicker and less memory intensive XMB.

I reckon announcing both cross game chat and a new web browser would be two pretty big wins for Sony. All they need to do then is announce a slew of great exclusives, finally show us what Rockstar's Agent is all about and come out with a lower than expected price point for the NGP, (proceeded by the announcement of immediate world peace and the return of Flipz to the EU market :P ) and then I think they'll have built up enough positive momentum to at least accelerate the process of winning back the good will of gamers effected by this outage.

Who knows though, Tretton could come out with his big rosy cheeks, clasp his hands together and say... well we want to start by talking about Playstation Home*..... at which point the entire internet joins Anoymous!

:ph34r:*I love me some Playstation Home :ph34r:

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Outside of that, there are some fairly credible tech reports that have led a one man crusade from a guy called Jeff Rigby, who has posted numerous compelling articles which suggest PS3 will not only be getting a webkit based browser in the near future, but that the entire PS3 XMB could be re-written in a webkit compatible graphics library called Cairo. This should bring with it numerous benefits, most notably a quicker and less memory intensive XMB.

I reckon announcing both cross game chat and a new web browser would be two pretty big wins for Sony. All they need to do then is announce a slew of great exclusives, finally show us what Rockstar's Agent is all about and come out with a lower than expected price point for the NGP, (proceeded by the announcement of immediate world peace and the return of Flipz to the EU market :P ) and then I think they'll have built up enough positive momentum to at least accelerate the process of winning back the good will of gamers effected by this outage.

I'd like to point out that the browser that is currently in the PS3 is already webkit-based. Still, it does need a massive overhaul.

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Robo_1

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I'd like to point out that the browser that is currently in the PS3 is already webkit-based. Still, it does need a massive overhaul.

Well it certainly uses a NetFront browser, but I had no idea that NetFront was based on webkit. Where did you hear/read that it was webkit based, as I thought only Safari and Chrome used webkit.

The most information I could find about the PS3 browser was here, and there's no mention of webkit in there. :unsure:

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Hmmm... I swear I read that it used webkit ages ago... and someone on Neowin said the same thing too. I concur with NetFront but I always assumed it was using an (ancient) version of webkit.

They started porting parts of Webkit a while back apparently, but they weren't being used in the main web browser.

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Robo_1

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It's being reported that the same toilet bugs who hacked the PSN, have just hacked the Deus Ex: Human Revolution website, and walked off with the personal details of up to 80,000 registered users and 9000 resumes.

Quite why Eidos would be a target is anyone's guess, maybe it's just open season on video game companies at the moment?

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It's being reported that the same toilet bugs who hacked the PSN, have just hacked the Deus Ex: Human Revolution website, and walked off with the personal details of up to 80,000 registered users and 9000 resumes.

Quite why Eidos would be a target is anyone's guess, maybe it's just open season on video game companies at the moment?

Sites that are easy to hack get hacked.

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Jarik

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If the updates can run independently of PSN, is it at all possible that the online play could have also been a separate thing from PSN? Too late now I know, but it wouldn't have been so bad for Sony & customers IMO if it was just the shop that was inaccessible & online play was still working.

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