This wouldn't happen. Not now. Not ever. The vast difference between Sony's resources and Microsoft's is one reason. There is also the fact that Live is a subsidiary of Microsoft. Microsoft, you know one of the largest corporations on Earth owned by the second richest man in the world that you would have to be brain dead to take on or try to hack. Theres also the fact that people knew that Sony's servers were insecure. You hear all these people saying they knew they were insecure, but you don't hear that about Live. And another reason is that the hated "You have to pay" feature makes it where their are a lot of people dedicated to it and gives it a higher priority within Microsoft than the PS3 has in Sony, because the Xbox and it's services ae a money maker unlike the PS3 which is still losing money on its consoles.
tl;dr Live wont be hacked
Now I wait, because this site has many more PS3 fanboys than Xbox.
Edit:
For those saying Sony is worth some 129 billion.
This is the American stock market but still MS is worth more than you guys are claiming.
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:SNE Sony: 28.19 billion
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MSFT Microsoft: 218.16 billion
To those talking about the few accounts that are hacked like the security team guy.
I continue to see people say this. THESE ARE A FEW ACCOUNTS THAT WERE HACKED. Probably Brute force hacked. All you need is to know an an email and password that is it. It's not even that difficult I know a few people who can do it. All you have to do is recover the account and thats what they did didnt do much else. Sony had everything stolen, all the data everything. Now lets me say this
A few accounts on Xbox =/= All of PSN
And the Bill Gates thing
No one else will read this but I said Bill Gates to highlight the fact that Microsoft has a decent amount of money, not to show any other kind of thing just to highlight a point.
EDIT 2: I never said it was impossible to hack. Look I never said it. reread it now I'm waiting. Done? I said it wont happen. WONT NOT CANT WONT. That is what I said. And it probably won't, it is more secure than PSN and would be harder to hack.
EDIT 3: http://www.gamefront.com/the-dumbest-arguments-surrounding-the-psn-downtime-controversy/ covers most of these arguments.
tl;dr Live wont be hacked
Now I wait, because this site has many more PS3 fanboys than Xbox.
Edit:
For those saying Sony is worth some 129 billion.
This is the American stock market but still MS is worth more than you guys are claiming.
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:SNE Sony: 28.19 billion
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MSFT Microsoft: 218.16 billion
To those talking about the few accounts that are hacked like the security team guy.
I continue to see people say this. THESE ARE A FEW ACCOUNTS THAT WERE HACKED. Probably Brute force hacked. All you need is to know an an email and password that is it. It's not even that difficult I know a few people who can do it. All you have to do is recover the account and thats what they did didnt do much else. Sony had everything stolen, all the data everything. Now lets me say this
A few accounts on Xbox =/= All of PSN
And the Bill Gates thing
No one else will read this but I said Bill Gates to highlight the fact that Microsoft has a decent amount of money, not to show any other kind of thing just to highlight a point.
EDIT 2: I never said it was impossible to hack. Look I never said it. reread it now I'm waiting. Done? I said it wont happen. WONT NOT CANT WONT. That is what I said. And it probably won't, it is more secure than PSN and would be harder to hack.
EDIT 3: http://www.gamefront.com/the-dumbest-arguments-surrounding-the-psn-downtime-controversy/ covers most of these arguments.