What Was Worse? PSN Outage Or The RROD FIasco?

Which one was worse in your opinion?

I was much more pissed about the PSN outage. I'm not a fan of my personal info being exposed to hackers and theives. The RROD can be fixed in a 3-4 weeks. My credit rating is another story.

They were both terribl;e stains on both companys shirts, PSN outage did however leave personal info at stake while Sony didn't handle the situation well, so I'm going with that. Though not downplaying RRoD at all, Almost went to the point of selling my 360 and saving up for a PS3 when it happened.

Both should've been avoided.

Both were terrible, but I would still say PSN. If you had a RROD, you could exchange it, send it out to be fixed/replaced, or if worse came to worse, buy a new or refurbished unit. Point being, you could still use an xbox. PSN was completely out for a month without an alternative. If you wanted to play online, you were just plain screwed. That plus RROD never gave out personal info to hackers either.

Uhh... PSN was kinda bad, but we did have SP games to play.

RROD was bad , but at least none of our information got out.

Of course, Sony apologize with 4 free games and a 2 year security plan. MS just gave us what should've been included:A working 360.

So overall, the PSN outage was worse, but MS had the worst outcome.

RROD by far, I don't even own a multiplayer game on my ps3, so i didn't miss the PSN one bit, but a week of no xbox was a far bigger concern

Where's the "Pay to play what you paid for" option. If i still paid for XBL i'd have spend about £200 on it already. That annoyed me more than either PSN or RROD. But from the list i'd say RROD since hacking cannot be 100% protected against and the fact it was a huge coordinated attack and also the fact no one has had any credit card actually stolen, just a hashed number in place of it, and the hackers got just a phone book of info that everyone in Scotland already has about me even people i don't know and for all we know the hackers themselves already had my details all this time sitting beside their phone. :shock:

Hard to say. It does bother me that the 360 was released with a known defect, though.

Obviously the PSN outage, everyone in the Sony user base experienced it. While with the 360...

some people's 360 RRODed, but despite that, the users whose 360s did not RROD could still play their games online.

I didn't have to cancel my credit cards and change all of my passwords (because, in an incredibly stupid move, I used my real email address and personal information for PSN) when my Xbox broke.

Take a guess.

RROD. I never had it,but I can't imagine how annoying it would be

IDK, during the PSN outage I really didn't give a #@(^. I didn't really play anything during that time. And I never expierenced a RROD .....

I didn't have to cancel my credit cards and change all of my passwords (because, in an incredibly stupid move, I used my real email address and personal information for PSN) when my Xbox broke.

Take a guess.

DarkLink77

PSN outage, obviously. I couldn't play awesome multiplayer games like Killzone 3 and Resistance 2 for a whole month! :lol:

Well considering every cow who never owned a 360 had 5 RROD's I'd say its gotta be RROD because of the laughable paradox it created....

Both sucked for those affected... both cost the companies millions and both were avoidable... its lose lose lose in this case.

I was much more pissed about the PSN outage. I'm not a fan of my personal info being exposed to hackers and theives. The RROD can be fixed in a 3-4 weeks. My credit rating is another story.

Mr_Ditters

PSN Outage. Anyone remember DRE's ??? yea console mess ups are bound to happen. So Il go with my info being at risk. silentnightmere

PSN Outage. Anyone remember DRE's ??? yea console mess ups are bound to happen. So Il go with my info being at risk. silentnightmere

One breaks your console the other just prevents you from going online for a month.

I think the answer is obvious

My 20+ dead 360s was more irritating then the PSN outage that had pretty much no effect on me.

PSN Hacking = Potential loss of information such as DOB, mailing address. Potential risk of credit card theft (though no security codes were compromised). Gamers were affected with a big scare, and having to waitover amonth. Indie developers were hit more than gamers honestly. Recompense was given in the form of free PS+ sub, free games, and a year enrollment of aidentity theftprevention program. Sony also fixed the issue with better network security.

RROD = Shipped millions of consoles with known a defect. Millions of gamers were affected. Couldnt play their360 for weeks until it was fixed.In the beginning some people had to pay to repair their console. MS answered with recompense in the form of extended console warranty. MS also fixed the issue with better Elite models.

Verdit = both were bad. I was affected by both. For me, they were about even when all was said and done. All that happened to me was that I had to wait longer than I wanted in order to play my consoles. At least I got some free games with PSN :P. Though, my 360 constantly failing was very irritating, at least MS paid for their error.

They are both horrible and they are both fixed now..so...

They are both horrible and they are both fixed now..so...

WilliamRLBaker

PSN fiasco is worse, but i was hardly raging over it. Didn't affect me at all.

They are both horrible and they are both fixed now..so...

WilliamRLBaker

I know but which one was worse?

PSN fiasco is worse, but i was hardly raging over it. Didn't affect me at all.

el3m2tigre

The only real problem for gamers was the actual wait. I have yet to hear of anyone who had their identiy stolen due to this incident. Actually, in order to have your identity stolen, yourSSN must be stolen. Sonynever asked for this information from their customers.As far as charges on CCs go, security codes on credit cards were not stored at all. And the numbers that were stored, werehashed for protection. Therefore, I don't think anything could have been used anyways.

My 20+ dead 360s was more irritating then the PSN outage that had pretty much no effect on me.

Darkslayer16

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My 20+ dead 360s was more irritating then the PSN outage that had pretty much no effect on me.

TheEroica

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They are both horrible and they are both fixed now..so...

Heroldp813

I know but which one was worse?

The 360 RROD is worse. I'm sorry, but it is true. EVERYBODY I know with a 360 has had RROD and I can only imagine the reaction was similar to mine: Goes to turn on console to play some games...."huh? What teh f***? *googles* awe man?! Seriously? I just bought this thing not too long ago. This sucks."

PSN was horrid for those silly enough to put all there info in there.

The one positive that came out of the psn fiasco is that people can now see that stuff like this DOES happen, and shouldn't be so giving as far as personal info goes. It also probably made ms beef up their security as well.

RROD didn't lose your personal info.

Well i didn't like the fact that my credit card info was stolen, though nothing happend to it. I'm still using the same credit card and everything is fine.

gaming wise, i don't play online so i really didn't care

I think i would have been more mad about waiting for my console to get repair

Every single PS3 owner was affect by the outage, whether you had the old phat ones or whether you had the slims, you were affected. While some of the phat 360s were the only ones affected, the rrod was nomore with the slims.

For an individual, I imagine the RROD was worse, since they couldn't play anything, and it also showed them just how junky their $400 toy was. Additionally, the RROD was MS's own doing.

The PSN outage was the result of attacks from angsty hackers, and as such Sony wasn't directly responsible for it. It was certainly inconvenient, but the system itself still worked.

For an individual, I imagine the RROD was worse, since they couldn't play anything, and it also showed them just how junky their $400 toy was. Additionally, the RROD was MS's own doing.

The PSN outage was the result of attacks from angsty hackers, and as such Sony wasn't directly responsible for it. It was certainly inconvenient, but the system itself still worked.

Pug-Nasty