Because the 360 is wholly our platform of choice, I guess it didn’t occur to me to do a post about PSN being down for over a week now.  However, now it’s getting ridiculous.  What began as an outage turned into an intrusion and then to a security analysis and now we’re learning that the personal information of millions of PSN users has probably been compromised.  Which, in a turn of events that should be surprising to absolutely no one a class action lawsuit has been filed on account of countless angry gamers for Sony’s herping to the point of derp.

I suppose I haven’t paid a horrible amount of attention to this development because that’s how little I use my PS3 and even when I do I could care less about PSN.  However, that doesn’t mean it’s not important and while at first I kind of laughed at Sony and shrugged it off for the fumble, with each passing day the shit gets proverbially more real.  I actually feel bad for them as one estimate believes this blunder will cost Sony a cool $24 billion dollars.  That’s billion.  With a ‘B’.  Ouch.

Crappy as the situation is I can feel only so much remorse for a company that releases a new firmware update with the same kind of regularity as my cockatiel’s bowel movements only to have such a massive security problem manifest itself this way.  Making matters worse is that their only real response has been to tell us that there isn’t a real response but they’ll keep us posted.  I guess you do what you can, but the more this escalates the uglier it gets.