Say what you will about Microsoft, but one cannot deny its douchebaggery is of the highest quality. The company has responded to the recent PlayStation Network downtime, offering its condolences to affected players, but reminding everyone that they can still use Xbox Live if they want to. Classy!
"Of course it’s regretful that Sony is encountering issues at such a busy time, and Microsoft takes no joy in the problems gamers are having playing their favourite games online," said an MS rep. "That being said, we are expecting Microsoft’s robust online network to see an increase of traffic from those gamers who own both systems.
"Being able to play their games via the Xbox Live network could make all the difference for some gamers, and the Xbox Nations event will allow all of them to do just that -- whether they have a Gold subscription or not.”
So, PlayStation Network goes down during Microsoft's free-for-all Xbox Live event ... coincidence? How convenient. Of course, it probably is a coincidence, but I'm going to pretend it's corporate sabotage, because my life isn't interesting enough.
Microsoft Reacts to PlayStation Network Outage [Electronic Theater]
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1:00 PM on 04.23.2011 | 
<3 UMAD360
...sweet.
faceless online garbage games are ruining this generation.
Gotta love a good troll. Prablum, Sony?
A bit butthurt, no?
Also, MS U SO PRINGLES WHERE YO CURLEH MUSTASHE AT?
moar like WinnerZero amirite?
That's a classy response to give when asked about a struggling competitor.
Good job MS, thanks for not taking cheap shots at the competition like Sony does.
sony should learn from MS how to do PR cause for the past several monts every time they do some PR it's complete failure.
Microsoft might have been better to quietly not say anything...
You're not wrong there. They could learn a lot from eachother in fact, Microsoft should take lessons in how to release games, because for the past several months (read: since October) they haven't released any, now we have a long wait until September til the next one.
Mutual knowledge sharing would benefit us all.
PROBLEM?
I'm good, though, personally. I rarely play online, and when I do it's usually on PC, so I have no desire to pay for something like Live.
Nah, it's gonna suck if this ever happens to Xbox Live so let's hope they get the PSN up ASAP. Seriously though Elsa you need to get a 360 already so we can play
If I was the competition i'd take a jab to.
I wouldn't even know what to play on Live. Seriously. I can't think of anything. The only exclusive I wanted to play was Mass Effect 2. Got that on PS3 and it doesn't need PSN (or Live for that matter). Not interested in Halo or Gears. There must be something I'm forgetting though. But then again, if I can't figure it out it's probably because I'm not interested enough. So yeah, no problems here.
Curious to see what Microsoft or you guys can think of.
Microsoft is *Dumbells*