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I'm considering closing my account and opening a new one. Or, at the very least, changing logon and passwords...if that's even possible? I know I can change my passwords but I'm not sure about the logon.

It sounds like you'd be fine doing this.  But generally speaking, people should be careful here.  If you delete an account off your PS3 that was used to purchase and download content, that content goes away.  On our old PS3, the kids deleted my account since I never used it.  Then all the games we had downloaded stopped working.

So, changing your password is a good idea.  But if you've purchased things, you may want to be careful about starting with a whole new account.

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This is leaning me towards purchasing PS point cards at local game stores vs storing my info on their servers.

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Quoting Skip (Not the real Skip):

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Well if you ever need any more evidence that Sony sold the there Playstation brand down the river to get Blu-ray off the grown, then here it is. The truth is though i hardly think they care...

I don't see it getting any better for Sony. And possibly dare i say it the end of the Playstation brand at the end of the PS3's console life.

That's utter rubbish in both cases. End of line!

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Quoting mreeder50:

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Quoting Skip (Not the real Skip):

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Well if you ever need any more evidence that Sony sold the there Playstation brand down the river to get Blu-ray off the grown, then here it is. The truth is though i hardly think they care...

I don't see it getting any better for Sony. And possibly dare i say it the end of the Playstation brand at the end of the PS3's console life.

That's utter rubbish in both cases. End of line!

They have sold every console at a loss. There first party titles have failed to sell as much as they should. There 3rd party titles don't sell as well ether. So there not making money back from software. This latest incident with PSN is set to cost them an estimated 24 billion.

Your telling me against that backdrop Sony are going to want to put money into another console? If you ask me there going to watch and wait and see what Nintendo does and if there next console sells well in world wide more importantly the European market.

Then i think Sony will become a software only company.

Sony's always sold console at a loss (as is Microsoft btw). Although right now they aren't any more. Only Nintendo always makes a profit from the start. Which is natural considering their consoles are technically less advanced than either the XBox 360 and the PS3.

Now according to some data Sony's actually surpassed the XBox 360 in installed base, only in the USA and the UK the Xbox is still selling better.

I think the more logical step is for Sony to start asking money for the online experience as is Microsoft in which case we should really thank Anonymous for sticking up for the consumer! The idiots!

Paul

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Here you see an article which mentions Sony's PS3 outselling the X360 on a worldwide base.

About the new Nintendo console, we don't know anything about it yet. The Wii sold this good because of the casual gamer who, as we see in the game to console ratio, don't use it a lot except to play Wii Sports and Mario Kart, combine this with the fact that almost all  third-party games fail on the Wii and the fact the 'hardcore' gamer feels left behind it remains to be seen if Nintendo can recapture the hardcore audience.

This of course also means that a several big third-party developers have stated they don't see it's worthwhile to develop for the Wii, these developers would have to be persuaded to come back.

If, by trying to retake the hardcore market, they lose the casual market again, and from the rumors they'll revert back to a traditional controller so this may happen, than they have problems as well.

Another hurdle for Nintendo would be online game-play. Now, with the focus of almost all developers on online game-play as well as Nintendo's failure to start up a decent online component they'll need to focus a lot of work on there as well. And seeing they failed this aspect on the 3DS again that also remains to be seen.

That we have the fact that, according to rumors, the console is either somewhere between an X360 and the PS3 or a little better that the PS3 this would not really posses a leap which will encite hardcore gamer back to Nintendo.

Again, there is not enough know to make that conclusion. We all agree this PSN debacle iisn't good, and i think we all hope they catch and severely punish those responsible but to say Sony will bow out? I doubt it with! The last 2 years the Playstation division has been profitable and with not a new console in sight there is to much unknown to make claims like that.

So, i think Sony will start by rebuilding PSN, probably add some features much requested (rumors mention cross-game chat and in-game video chat) and eventually will start charging for online gaming.

Of course, this is all speculation and until e# when Nintendo will reveal their new console that is all we can do

Paul

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That's what i'm saying! If Nintendo losses the Casual market, which it may, considering that a lot of people almost never use their Wii and thus probably aren't  interested in a new console, especially if it could end up costing $350-400.

And with the loss of hardcore gamers the Wii caused it may be hard for Nintendo to get back, but again, we don't know any thing yet so we''ll have to wait at least till E3,

but with the 3DS also not selling as much as Nintendo claimed it would i wouldn't be sure they could claim the same sales for their next console!

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That's what i'm saying! If Nintendo losses the Casual market, which it may, considering that a lot of people almost never use their Wii and thus probably aren't  interested in a new console, especially if it could end up costing $350-400.

And with the loss of hardcore gamers the Wii caused it may be hard for Nintendo to get back, but again, we don't know any thing yet so we''ll have to wait at least till E3,

but with the 3DS also not selling as much as Nintendo claimed it would i wouldn't be sure they could claim the same sales for their next console!