I sold my PS3 because I never used it other than as a Blu-Ray player but it sucks for the players not to have online.
I've played online pretty much every day since Wednesday on XBL, followed achievement data and sent and received a bunch of messages. I'd hate for it to have been down for more than about a day. You want it to be available whenever you want to use it and regardless of the actions of hackers Sony must have (or perhaps should have) had a contingency for something like this.
Cutting the arguably most important feature of the PS3s software is incredibly detrimental; especially when it isn't back up yet and the safety of CC information is in limbo (or undetermined) as of yet.
The worst part I'd say is that millions of people who were abiding by Sony's rules are being disallowed access to the PSN service. How many people are really getting free stuff? It's quite a big week for releases with Mortal Kombat and Portal 2; It's daunting that they expect to fix this issue and prevent it from happening in the future. Every moment they spend working on it nobody has access. What an awful way to work.
For anyone comparing the PS3/PSN and Xbox 360/XBL; this doesn't really concern that, beyond the current downtime (Did Giant Bomb's downtime make it a worse site?) and the PS3's piracy issues (Which honestly don't affect most people usually.) The games are the main concern of the consoles and they're basically the same normally.
I wish Skynet would just announce themselves so we know for sure It's rebellious machines instead of some horrifying technical apocalypse where the internet sucks.
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