PSN is down. Technically it is undergoing maintenance, not subject to some cyber attack by the hacker group Anonymous. Euhh. And it wasn't working since one day before this 5-day long weekend holiday started.
Now, Black Ops on the Xbox has an 'Xbox Live' menu option exactly where the 'Playstation Network' option is on the Playstation version.
I take it that just like Facebook or other major websites, Playstation Network is a 'portal' site and presumably there is some value in keeping it that way.
In future though, I hope that other games will let me connect directly to another computer for gaming, and not only servers that are, have been and most definitely will be subject to outages. I mean, if it doesn't contribute to server traffic, surely that will reduce costs and let me enjoy gaming when the server is not responding; and for something like multiplayer zombies among friends, that is entirely appropriate.
Then again, why would a company operating a network server want to allow users to do it on their own?
I guess it will need to be some sort of homebrew game that does that as a standard feature.
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Realaxed this is ryanl435. Rumours are that PSN will be back up and running 2moro, the 27th of April.
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