“Q: When will the PlayStation Network and Qriocity be back online?
A: Our employees have been working day and night to restore operations as quickly as possible, and we expect to have some services up and running within a week from yesterday. However, we want to be very clear that we will only restore operations when we are confident that the network is secure. ”

So the network was to have been up by May 3rd at the latest making the outage just under 2 weeks long. Not one solid date has been provided since. This is nothing short of insane. Imagine any other product or service that you use so regularly, being unavailable for over two weeks?

While an inferior piece of hardware, migrating to an inexpensive X-Box is looking mighty tempting to a lot of PS3 users looking for a better network.

I can’t abide by having any sympathy for Sony in this case as it was 100% their responsibility to protect my user details, those of my children and and my credit card data. I do understand that it’s a big headache for them, but life is tough! When you take my money, you own the responsibility. Does anyone at Sony care about the costs that consumers and banks are going to incur to re-issue credit cards and the pay out of any fraud claims? Of course not. All claims of regret are likely genuine, but that’s not where the rubber meets the road. Regret does not equal responsibility, and responsibility is the one thing that Sony has yet to acknowledge. Rather pathetic for a world leading corporation.

This has certainly been worse for Sony than it has been for us, now the only thing we can do is wait and hope nothing worse comes out of this situation because of that.

Normally when this many accounts get taken, there is a substantial crumb trail. We shall see.