How much longer is this gonna take??? Jeez Sony. All you XBOX owners, is it pretty good online, or are there a bunch of hackers/errors?

Possibly not until the 31st.

That is for full functionality. Sony started tests last weekend, and it might take about a week until they are really sure that they have well-working infrastructure now.

I'm pretty sure I read on IGN that the 31st could be for the PSN as well and not just full functionality.

From what i read it was going to be restored in parts and the 31st was the aim to be fully restored.
Online gaming and friends list was sposed to be the first part and the store and everything else after.

That was the original plan, but they had another set back.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/09/bad-information-spreading-on-playstation-networks-return-date-nothing-new-folks/

So, sometime in May.

All that link told me is that there's no new info and the 31st is still part of May. It's very possible PSN won't be back until the end of the month. It's almost the middle of May already.

The only way they can redeem themselves is to reintroduce PS2 backwards compatibility. It doesn't preclude the ability to sell HD-ized versions of PS2 games. Great for PR, great for the consumer, drastically expands the library of games, and brings the PS3 up to par with its competitors (wii, 360).

I don't ever see this happening unfortunately.

On the Playstation Blog it says some gaming will be restored in 1 to 7 days with full functionality by the 31st, that was on the 6th, so hopefully this weekend, bit somehow I doubt I will not get to play Brink on the weekend.

Much as I agree, I think Freddo pointed out that they make too much money from PS2 compilation DLs to do that. It's even more stupid in Europe, because our PS2 compatibility was always done by software rather than hardware, so there was nothing tangible to remove.

I'm thinking it will be up this week, as we are long past the original estimated time, and the most recent blog post is saying "at least a few more days." That's not the rest of the month.

I really want to kick some butt on Uncharted 2...

During the outage I played through it again on Hard, and now I really want to go online as well. I really miss Survival.

Doesn't the PS3 version of LA Noire have exclusive content? Hopefully PSN is turned back on by the 17th.

That's not true.

The original PS3 with backwards compability in Japan and USA had full hardware compability as it had both the PS2 CPU (Emotion Engine) and the PS2 GPU (Graphics Synthesizer) chips in it.

The European PS3 with backwards compability (and the first 80GB model in Japan and USA) removed the PS2 CPU and emulated the processor. But the PS2 GPU remained.

Then the PS2 GPU was removed too, and since then there hasn't been any PS2 backwards compability.

Thanks, I was just about to post that.


I think they might have something in store in regards to emulation in the future, what with the emulation on their recently announced tablets. I mean, they'd need software emulation for that. The EE on the Slim PS2 is still cooled in the best way possible, and yet that one gets pretty hot after a while - not really nice if you want that in a tablet PC.

I am hoping that will be the case, but seeing as how they have stated this a couple times already, I am only going to believe it when I am able to turn on my ps3 and log into psn.

but you have given me hope. thank you.

I honestly don't think putting the PS2 BC back in would really hurt compilation sales.

If there was no BC: people who still have the original games will already have their PS2. In other words, they would be less likely to buy the compilation anyway since they already have the games.

That said: the compilations are:
1) conveniently come on a single disc
2) updated to HD graphics
3) may include trophies/achievements (such as the GoW collection)

Thus, compilations might still be attractive to people who already have a PS2 and the PS2 games. It would even be attractive to people who might otherwise buy the PS2 games (if they don't already have them) to put in their PS3 because the PS2 games may be more difficult to find, especially if they are phased out (such as what Gamestop is currently doing to original XBox games). And think about the hard-to-find games for compilations, such as ICO for the upcoming SotC and ICO compilation.

If no BC: Even if Sony released all the PS2 as compilations, it would still be less expensive for me to buy a new PS2 than to purchase the compilations to re-create my library of oodles of PS2 games. Even if they were downloadable off PSN (and somehow only BC worked with the PSN titles), it'd be less expensive for me to buy a new PS2 than to purchase PSN PS2 games at non-competitive/realistic prices.

MS and Nintendo offer BC for their consoles, and their sales are still better than the PS3. In other words, the BC hasn't made the 360 or the Wii less competitive, it would seem.

So, from my thoughts and speculations, I would think that re-introducing BC wouldn't be disastrous or shooting their profits in the foot.

Hackers Hacked. Anonymous, the group believed responsible for the security breach at Sony Online Entertainment, and the PS Network have been targeted and hacked themselves.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/the-hackers-hacked-main-anonymous-irc-servers-seized.ars

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/05/09/anonymous-get-hacked/

That's true, but sadly the PS2 doesn't work well with a HDTV, so it looks crap unless I run it through a PS3, which of course I can't do now.

What a bunch of nerds.,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrhVo1WA78

:rofl: