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The Real Cost of Sony’s Network Outage [Infographic]

May 23, 2011

An infographic detailing the PSN fiasco retraces the events that lead up to the service’s shutdown and assesses the outage’s true cost.

The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network has hurt more than just the gamers unable to access the online service. The breach and the subsequent shutdown of the service had real-world impacts on Sony, game developers who remain dependent on the service, and many others within the PSN infrastructure. 

An infographic has been created to retrace the sequence of events, with financial assessments through independent research data acquired from the Ponemon Institute.

psn outage cost

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