One-Fifth of PS3 Owners Are Eyeing the Exit

[Aeonknight]

Let them. They'll be back as soon as a PS3 exclusive comes out that they simply must play.

Anyone that would willingly choose to deprive themselves of entertainment over some misplaced loyalty towards a particular console is a fool.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

A couple of my mates are also considering this which is great. I've been trying to make them get Xbox LIVE for ages.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

I've found this entire thing fucking hysterical, even though i'm guessing my details have been stolen too

 

[Rex Fallout]

I say BS.

Right so I'm lying just to take the piss with sony? I don't give a crap who makes the device they screw up I'm not going to be happy about it. I got no email and if you don't believe me that's not my problem, there's no Sony Email in my inbox besides great offers from the PSN, and as I gathered my cousin has nothing in his inbox and nor does my friend.

Believe what you want, I don't care.

*chuckles* I don't care what the flying flip you do. Toss your PS3 out the window, burn your sony television and whatever else you want to do. I was just pointing out that there is little reason to go and grab your pitchforks and torches to go after Sony. They are just as screwed as the worst of their customers is right now. They have enough to deal with. This is as ridiculous as if a burgler broke into someones house stole stuff, left, then brought the owner of the house to court the next day because he stubbed his toe- While robbing the house.

No one should be stupid enough to just leave their information online like that. Personally, I usually buy cards when I want to get stuff so as to avoid that. You trusted your valued information to someone else, as did some 60 million people, and it was stolen from that person. Whoop de do. Why don't we do the smart thing, and go after the Mother f**ker who did this to Sony, instead of going after Sony- who after all is really just another victim.

 

[chunkeymonke]

Wait how can you have a serious statistic of a multimillion owner base if you only survey 2000ish people?
I'm sticking with my ps3 still love it :3

 

[willow925]

Yup. Not going to touch my PS3 anymore, might even sell it. Already have a good PC and a 360 so i don't really need it.

 

[Vigilantis]

I'd build myself a gaming computer before I bought an Xbox 360, Sony could literally shut down and cease all playstation titles and that wouldn't be an incentive on buying an xbox.

(And by "build myself a gaming computer" I mean force my nerd to do it as I am a Comp-Retard)

 

[Worr Monger]

I doubt I'll get a 360 instead. I probably will be building a new pc pretty soon though.

*SIGH* In a perfect world... Everyone would be thinking this.

 

[Snotnarok]

I say BS.

Right so I'm lying just to take the piss with sony? I don't give a crap who makes the device they screw up I'm not going to be happy about it. I got no email and if you don't believe me that's not my problem, there's no Sony Email in my inbox besides great offers from the PSN, and as I gathered my cousin has nothing in his inbox and nor does my friend.

Believe what you want, I don't care.

*chuckles* I don't care what the flying flip you do. Toss your PS3 out the window, burn your sony television and whatever else you want to do. I was just pointing out that there is little reason to go and grab your pitchforks and torches to go after Sony. They are just as screwed as the worst of their customers is right now. They have enough to deal with. This is as ridiculous as if a burgler broke into someones house stole stuff, left, then brought the owner of the house to court the next day because he stubbed his toe- While robbing the house.

No one should be stupid enough to just leave their information online like that. Personally, I usually buy cards when I want to get stuff so as to avoid that. You trusted your valued information to someone else, as did some 60 million people, and it was stolen from that person. Whoop de do. Why don't we do the smart thing, and go after the Mother f**ker who did this to Sony, instead of going after Sony- who after all is really just another victim.

Okay first that burglar story actually has happened, he got trapped in the owners garage and he sued them.

Secondly, I'm probably the least mad out of some people here, I'm upset that I've been advertised to, buuuut they won't tell me about my credit card crap being stolen. Hackers aren't my concern here because while they did it, Sony didn't exactly get something to me who were supposed to be in charge of keeping this data safe while I bought stuff from them. Seems others have but I even looked through my spam folder a moment ago, nothing but penis pills and breast enhancer advertisements.

I'm keeping my PS3 because I like the hardware though Sony has been doing very stupid things lately that aren't making me side with them, then again so has the other console developers.

 

[mysecondlife]

I'll stick with my PS3 as well. I like the games that I own and I don't use PSN enough to get pissed about it. I'm still relieved that I haven't purchased anything over PSN.

Plus.. Uncharted 3, Infamous 2, Last Guardian, etc are plenty of reason to stay in my opinion...

All in all... I wish this ends up being false alarm..

 

[Jumplion]

Commissioned by CouponCodes4U "in order to assess gamer attitudes towards the affair," the survey encompassed 2132 people across the U.S., finding that 41 percent of them own PlayStation 3 consoles. 89 percent of those PS3 owners said they were concerned that their personal data may have been stolen in the breach; 65 percent said their trust in Sony and PSN had been "greatly affected"; and 21 percent claimed they were considering selling their PS3 units and switching to Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Okay, I'm sorry, but I always get skeptical when statistics are shown no matter what it's promoting.

So, yeah, they surveyed 2132 people. And yet, only 41% owned PS3s, meaning that's only about 875 people, a very small sum. They didn't even bother to make sure those they surveyed owned the damn things they were questioning.

So, out of that 875 people, 89% are worried about their personal data which I'm not going to argue since it should be 100%.

But then it says 65% of their trust has been lost.....so, what does that 65% make up of? I'm pretty sure 89+65=/=100, and even if we take out the 89%, the 65% only make up around 570 people which is hardly enough to extrapolate to 77 million people.

Top of that, 21% say they are thinking of switching, so is that subtracted from the 65% or from both the 89% and 60%? Not to mention that is barely 184 people, again, that's not much useful to predict how 77 goddamn million people will think

Not to mention that this survey was taken during the whole ordeal where people are still panicking and don't know what the fuck's going on. This would mean that the questions asked could very well have been loaded regardless.

Don't get me wrong, there should be 100% people worried about their information, people should be losing trust in Sony (lord knows I, the resident Sony fanboy, have lost trust to them), and I don't blame anyone for wanting to switch to the 360 or Wii or whatever. I'm just always skeptical whenever percentages or statistics are shown up, and this is hardly a well done survey especially considering it's been done so quickly.

 

[SaintWaldo]

I smell ten yetis.

I know, like, nine-hundred ninety-nine of you have no idea what I mean.

And that's the point.

All I'm really saying is, this is the first time Mark Pearson has published any polling. Secret Millionaire, indeed.

This way to the egress.

 

[Dastardly]

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Eh... this strikes me as the kind of thing people say to voice displeasure, without really meaning it. It's like when someone goes to a store to return an item, and they're reminded of a policy they surely knew about earlier, and they pull that old, "Well, you're losing a customer!" line.

No, you'll go back. You're just saying that in hopes of scaring them into giving you something free that you want. It's Sony, for Christ's sake. Half of the electronics you own were made by them or copied from them.

I don't own or want a PS3, simply because I don't like the game selection and don't care a rat's ass for Blu-Ray, but this "major security breach" could have happened to any online entity. And it probably will very soon.

 

[Kadoodle]

No. I'm not leaving. Sony fucked up bad, but I forgive them. They have had a decent track record, and even if my credit card info is stolen, I'll just cancel. Spam mail will be a minor annoyance. I stay loyal to Sony, and I am confident that they will clean things up, for their sake.

I also don't plan to shit out 10 bucks a month for online access. If its free on a PC, then let it be free for everything else. I'm staying with Sony on this one.

 

[lomylithruldor]

Let me tell you something. Make SONY focus on a court case AND this and it'll go slower.

Yeah, because the engineers that work on fixing the PSN are also the lawyers that will defend sony in court.

 

[Proyoginator]

In a way this will eventually help sony. Theres no way in hell they will ever let this happen again.

 

[qeinar]

Well good job Geohotz.

By giving others the capability to break the law you've succeeded in hurting a major corporation. Go burn in hell.

Perhaps Sony could've done better but that doesn't exempt him of what he did. He let this happen with his innocent little, "Oh I can't control what people do with it." Fuck you. Fuck you Geo and die.

Well while it is hurting sony, microsoft have probably already gained a lot from this. Also is it even shure they used geohotz hack to get into the database?

 

[instantbenz]

that 21% are ignoring the fact that the 360 is a flawed system that breaks down at much greater a rate than the ps3.

i'm displeased as well, but i would much rather sell everything ps3 and just spend it on steam games than go back to that shit.

i would rather do that, but won't. they'll iron this out eventually and hopefully it purges out the foolish who would even think of converting.