NEWS: PSN Still Under Construction (PLAYSTATION)

It's been 5 days since the Playstation Network's service died. Thousands millions of PSN subscribers around the world have been affected by this outage. Reports claim that the Playstation team are already working on it, but until now the problem has not been answered.

It cannot wait!

Many games that was released last week have also been affected by this. One good example is the SOCOM 4, which has multiplayer capabilities. Guess we have to wait for PSN to go online again.

NEWS: Wii 2 is Real! (NINTENDO)

The Wii successor is real! Today, Nintendo released a memo regarding the matter. The next generation console of Nintendo will be revealed at E3 in June. It will be demoed and lucky people will be able to get their hands on this during the event.  It will be released sometime next year. Here is the full statement via nintendoworldreport. 

To whom it may concern:

                                                  Re: Wii's successor system

Nintendo Co., Ltd. has decided to launch in 2012 a system to succeed Wii, which the company has sold 86.01 million units on a consolidated shipment basis between its launch in 2006 and the end of March 2011.

We will show a playable model of the new system and announce more specifications at the E3 Expo, which will be held June 7-9, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Sales of the new system have not been included in the financial forecasts announced today for the fiscal term ending March 2012.

 Oh how I wish to attend the event. I'm pretty much jealous to those who can go. Sigh.

RUMOR: Discontinued Production of Nintendo DS Lite (NINTENDO)

Well the time has come that the NDS Lite's production came to a full stop. According to the guys at GameStop, they received an e-mail about the news. Here is a screenshot:

Actually I already see this coming, since the DSi have been out. Maybe they are planning to manufacture lots of 3DS to replace it. Don't be sad though, only the Lite received the boot, DSi's and DSi XL's are still under production.

NEWS: Sony Blames Anonymous (SONY)

Screenshot of PSN

On Wednesday, PlayStation Network encountered outage in their service. Many gamers were unable to login to their account because of this matter. Sony took immediate response to the issue, making the service offline to investigate thoroughly the cause of the outage. 

Playstation spokesperson Patrick Seybold's statement about the problem:

An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority.

He stated that an external intrusion is the cause of the problem. Their target for that matter is the Anonymous team. The Anonymous started attacking Sony last month. When do you think the grudge will end? Stay tuned.

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