Sources seem to be pointing towards higher trade in levels of PlayStation 3’s since the PSN outage than prior to the incident.
It’s coming up to the ridiculous milestone of a month since PSN was turned off by Sony after hackers breached the services security and began to steal data; unfortunately for Sony it seems that the outage is have severe consequences when it comes to consoles being traded in.
According to sources that have spoken to EDGE the first week of the outage didn’t affect trade-in levels with customers still thinking the service would quickly resume “However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in”
Interestingly the same source went on to say that the trade-in’s were “split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.” Also not surprisingly there has been a major slump in PSN Card sales over the past few weeks.
Have you been tempted to trade in your PS3 or have you already? Comment below.
desfunk
May 12, 2011 at 9:04 PMNot once have i even THOUGHT of doing it. And i don’t understand why anybody would. What this really proves, is that people should own multiple consoles if they want to get their game on. Or just find some single player stuff to play.
I can understand how those people who ‘live’ online would make a stupid move like that, in an effort to ‘stick it to the man’, but in the end they’ll probably end up REbuying another one. Which in the end, has just caused them to waste more time and money then it was worth.
I personally have a mountain of single player campaigns to still play, and don’t even MISS the playstation network. So none of this has bothered me (other then missing ‘some’ tracks in rock band. i can always catch up on those at a later date)
Me
May 12, 2011 at 10:41 PMThis is no reason to buy a freaking Xbox, this could happen to any company. PS3 for live!!!
Tony Jockey
May 13, 2011 at 12:31 AMI feel sorry for those people who are so damn impatient! I spent $300plus for a PS3 and I treasure it the most cuz $300+ is from my blood&tears working fulltime flipping burgers!LOL.
Trade-in my PS3???? FOOKING H*LL NO! Within weeks after PSN is restored. I want to see those people who trade in their PS3s itching for their system back cuz more PS3 exclusives are coming out this year.
p.s. Patience is virtue after all.
Me
May 14, 2011 at 2:46 AMThere’s no reason why online gaming through psn should not have been resolved weeks ago.
Isolate bank accounts.
Nobody cares that some hacker knows your game info, login, etc. NOBODY.
It’s all ridiculous.
Somebody “might” have found out our gaming login name and password… WHO THE F CARES? Seriously, who cares? Are they going to buy the game disk and login as me? Who CARES?!
This is all crazy. I didn’t pay a ridiculous $60 to sit and wait for PSN to secure itself. Mistakes and accidents happen, but they’re rectified at a reasonable time. A month is NOT reasonable for a company like sony, NOT AT ALL.
All anyone wants to do it play online. Sony, open the online network feature and require users to start anew. Playing from square one is better than not playing at all! Why can you not understand this?!
Arrogance, Sony always was the epitome of such.
Me
May 14, 2011 at 2:50 AMtony Jockey,
Some of us don’t quite enjoy having mud thrown in our faces for months at a time like you do.
I chose a ps3 for two reasons:
1. liked the graphics and play better than alternatives
2. figured bluray would kill two birds with one stone.
Never once did I seriously consider the false promises of “coming soon” games. PS3 has been talking about a boom in games since its inception….hasn’t happened, never will.