At least one developer has confirmed that Sony will be doing all it can to help out the developers affected by the PSN Outage. A number of downloadable games were scheduled to be released last week, including Mad Blocker Alpha from Open Emotion Studios. Paddy Murphy, CEO of Open Emotion said Sony would be helping their game with a few additional weeks of marketing in order to make up for the outage.
"Sony will be helping us retain key focus [prominent placement on the PSN Store] for an extra few weeks as they understand how something like this can affect a small dev studio like ours," said Murphy. "As it's our first week in the U.S., I'm sure it will affect sales, but we have to understand that Sony wouldn't take down the entire PSN on a whim. As long as they can give us some marketing assistance when the PSN is back up, we are sure we will be able to recoup our potential losses."
We've contacted the developers of some of the other games that were scheduled to be released but are awaiting a reply. Ubisoft, who is publishing Outland, has chosen not to comment on the situation. We'll update this story as we get more responses from developers.
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