• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    PSN being down is a tale as old as time. When the PS3 was out and before the PS4 was announced PSN had been down like at least once a month. It was well known as the least reliable gaming network. Even though Nintendo had their “Nintendo WiFi Connection” which was basically P2P and super garbage, it did not go down like PSN did.

    Xbox Live was vastly more reliable, likely because Microsoft has a better understanding of how to run a network, and they took the subscription money and reinvested it back into Xbox Live, growing and bolstering it to the point that it has its reputation for being the most reliable of the 3 gaming networks.

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      3 hours ago

      I feel like I need to add in this is being disingenuous. As someone who had the Ps3 during that time, for the most part PlayStation network was fairly reliable. With the exception of the 2011 Anonymous hack that took their entire system down for a month. But they came back and gave a handful of games free to everyone that was involved out of it.

      Like sure it would be down for an hour or two at a time periodically during update windows, but that’s standard and it was a mostly reliable service,

      I would play the PS3 basically daily cuz I was a massive Cod fan at the time. I rarely ever had an issue of logging on and having the network be offline.