Svensson expresses feelings about PlayStation Network outage Posted by Catalyst on May 9, 2011 at 12:04 a.m.
Capcom's Christian Svensson hit the Unity Boards to talk quite a bit about how the PlayStation Networking being down his impacted their business, also clarifying how it may affect the upcoming release of Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition.
How do you feel about the people hacking the PlayStation Network?
Svensson: I'm frustrated and upset by it for a number of reasons.
As a consumer, I also play games online on PS3, which I can't do... and likely my personal information is also compromised. Secondly I like to buy things in the PlayStation store and that I can't do right now.
On a related note, as an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget. These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.
In short, the hackers appear to be trying to "punish" Sony for some perceived injustice, and they've been effective in that I suppose. But they're also punishing millions of other consumers and businesses which makes it impossible to be sympathetic to their "cause".
What's worse, the PSN hacking or all of the leaked information about your games?
Svensson: They are both highly detrimental to our business. Hard to say which causes more financial impact, but both hurt.
Will the download option for Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition be affected by outages such as what's happening with the PSN?
If you download it before the servers go down then, yes, you can play Arcade Edition, but just the offline things. — Evil Ryu.
Svensson: [What Evil Ryu said] is correct.
How come EuroGamer listed Street Fighter X Tekken for the PC?
Svensson: EuroGamer posted it because it was in the FAQ we distributed to editors at Captivate. As stated above, the FAQ, for now, was erroneous unfortunately. At some point I hope to make it correct by having a PC SKU, but that's not yet a done deal. SpeedBrkr pointed out an article on Bloomberg.com stating that Sony hopes to have the PSN fully restored by May 31, 2011, but hopefully they're able to get other services back online before that time.
