I am not changing mine again.
Playstation Network is a Joke!
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I am not changing mine again.
Sony fail - again.
I dont care about all this anymore.
They should basically take the whole website access down on that level. There is no need for it, it can be done through a PS3, I don't know why they have that feature.
That's a load of bullshit to be fair.
The reason for the problem there is that the new XB360 update is trying to increase disc space and prevent piracy, and on some models with a particular DVD drive it doesn't work, so they'll give out new consoles.
The idea that a bit of software can make a PS3 overheat however is quite simply total rubbish.
The idea that a bit of software can make a PS3 overheat however is quite simply total rubbish.
They've retracted it anyway: PS3 firmware 3.61 not crashing LA Noire News - PlayStation 3 - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net
Bizarre.
Any article comparing the differences between the 360 and PS3 version yet, Weaste?
Bizarre.
Any article comparing the differences between the 360 and PS3 version yet, Weaste?
I might be able to get a slim 360 to go with the slim PS3 I've already got.
Lens of truth may have done one, but I don't trust what they say.
They have... Lens of Truth - Head2Head: L.A. Noire Screenshot Comparison PS3 vs Xbox 360 at least partially.
I'd rather wait for DF.
Weaste when are you opening the PS Store again?
Weaste when are you opening the PS Store again?
Official Blog says it should be up Sunday night
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/15/psn-store-up-rsunday/
Just change your real name. Or better yet, change your console.
Why are these guys targeting Sony?
Sony's second biggest loss ever was announced this week, partly due to this mess.
Check your facts, it has nothing to do with this, and is a "paper loss" due to regulation changes. ie. they are putting money aside now for tax that needs to be paid in future years. Operating profit was quite good.
So this and the earthquake didn't affect them, no?
I think it came a bit too late to get into the channel, but there could be some of it. The PSN thing was after the end of the final quarter, surely? I thought they made it quite clear that the loss was mainly down to deferred tax payments and regulatory changes in the US? Operating profit was fine.
From the FT... FT.com / Technology - Tax charge takes Sony into $3bn loss
It's a lot more complicated than it seems, and the earthquake and what happened to PSN made it more sensible to shift this tax back.
All this hacking business, is it because these systems are generally 'unprotectable' or are the hackers just exceptionally good at what they do?
Yes, I misread the loss from the PSN coming out of this years earnings (they've estimated Y14bn but I don't think we've seen the last of this). It does indeed all seem a bit complicated, after all they were expecting profits after the last two years. It would be interesting to see a breakdown, to see how individual parts of the company are doing.
Any news as to when the store will be back online?
Bit of both.
PSN is going down for maintenance at 4 today until midnight. According to SCEE the store will be back by the end of May but won't be back today or tomorrow.
Thursday isn't it when they publish that data?
I don't know, in a way the whole things has simply become a massive conglomerate over the past 20 years and lost a lot of focus. On the one hand it might make sense to simply dump half of their businesses and just go back to concentrating on doing what they always did best; making great electronic products in the mid-range consumer market. On the other side of the coin, all the media bullshit they've got their thumbs stuck into maybe in time can help them leverage something from the content they have into the electronics they have. Who knows?
What's interesting on the gaming side for me however is how they are trying to create this bottom-up eco-system from phones to top-end consoles. In this respect I'm talking about PS Suite and what they just announced with the PSP Remasters.
PSP Remasters coming to PS3 in HD News - PSP - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net
Where is this leading? It's clear that with a PS Suite game you will be able to play on the Android phone, the PSP, the NGP, and the PS3. Then, it seems, that a PSP game you will be able to play on the PSP, the NGP, and the PS3. Then, developer/publisher willingness accounted for, any NGP game will be able to be played on the PS3. So, taking this further, I can see that PS4 will use basically the same architecture as the PS3, simply beefed up, and that the same game will run on a PS3 and a PS4 under different settings, similar to how PC games can still run on a lower end rig and a high end rig, with the PS4 being to run every game along the chain from phone to PS3/PS4 games.
It's interesting in that you could be playing the game at home on the PS3, and then when you go out simply carry on where you left off with your NGP. It's quite clearly a move towards the point where the console will not exist, but rather when you get home will sit in a dock of some kind connected to the TV and provide the extra power required for that, yet still remain as a single executable box. In this respect, I think that they have the right idea.
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/10q4_sony.pdf
Electronics up, Network Products & Services (SCE is in this) up, Pictures down, Music down, Financial Services down, Sony Ericsson down.
This is the funny bit!
PS2 is an absolute beast!
The tech guy here at work was just telling me that Lockheed-Martin was hacked recently as well as RSA SecurID, who make those code generating authenticator tokens for VPN networks.
Shit is getting unreal.
About time.
I haven't really been following this, but do European customers get to claim the two free games previously mentioned?
End of the week eh? So not by the end of the month as stated.
Should do, non-PS+ users also get 30 days free PS+.
Also, apparently we'll get some movie deal for a weekend, although I don't think that has been confirmed.
The next (and first) hacker I meet is getting punched in the face. Who the feck do they think they are?!
Sony as a whole should really beef up their security, every week they keep getting hacked.
I very much doubt they were unencrypted.
I assume playstation store was back online for everyone else yesterday?
Just to clarify a misconception about unencrypted passwords. When they say unencrypted it doesn't mean that they were stored in plain text on the server.
When they say unencrypted it means that the database that they are stored in was unencrypted but most sites use a form of encryption called cryptographic hashing for the passwords.
They do this because everytime a user registered on the site it would mean they would have to re-encrypt the whole database which can take up a lot of processing power.
So the hackers will have the database with registration details but without the complex algorithm used they would not be able to gain the passwords.
PSN was stored in this manner.
HASH Functions
When they say unencrypted it means that the database that they are stored in was unencrypted but most sites use a form of encryption called cryptographic hashing for the passwords.
They do this because everytime a user registered on the site it would mean they would have to re-encrypt the whole database which can take up a lot of processing power.
So the hackers will have the database with registration details but without the complex algorithm used they would not be able to gain the passwords.
PSN was stored in this manner.
HASH Functions