No PSN ? So what ? Time to use that PC

In a shocking turn of events millions of PSN users are without access to Sony's online service . This is a great advert for Steam , and PC gaming in general  .The latest and most highly rated Steam game Portal 2 , launched in time to coincide with the PSN outage , includes both the PC and PS3 PSN versions in its box . Now millions of , or lets say a few hundred thousand PS3 users can simply bypass the PSN outage and play the PC version instead.

The indestructible nature of the open Internet as a gaming platform   is why in the age of consoles everyone who is serious about gaming should be doing so on a PC as well. And fans need to keep the pressure on developers to avoid closed server models .

Any closed environment whether PSN ,Xbox live . iOS , or recent acts like removing the ability to run dedicated servers for major PC games , just leaves the companies behind these products open to hostile attacks , like the one taking down PSN at the moment .

There is no fall back option , so a single incident can take down an entire company , like last years clock malfunction on the PS3,the present attack , or lets say the password scare on payment for iOS Apps last year .

It seems in seeking to strictly control access to their exclusive content, these companies and more importantly their customers  , whose details , including credit card details are all handled by controlled gateways like PSN , are vulnerable to attack. .

Sony Apple and Microsoft need to protect their business by using more open Internet related models for their online networks and games, right now it is clearly all too easy to throw a spanner in the works and shut down an entire platform . All three have faced problems in the last year alone.

These problems are never going to happen to your PC, so dust it off get to Steam , and get your Portal fix there ,  This may also be a good time to back up your PS3 hard disk , as who knows if the games are still going to be on your account when you log on , when they get PSN back up and running finally! 

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