14 DAY TRIAL // The ongoing outage experienced by the PlayStation Network is affecting third party developers and publishers, with Capcom saying that the offline period is causing losses of "hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars."
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network three weeks ago after a hacker attack, and still doesn't know when the online service may be available again, especially since it was attacked once more last week.
As you can imagine, besides gamers who can't access any online feature on their PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable consoles, third party developers and publishers aren't thrilled about a major console being unable to receive any sort of content unless it's a retail game.
Capcom is the most recent to voice its concerns, as its Senior Vice President, Christian Svensson, told the Capcom Unity blog how the PSN outage is affecting the Japanese company.
"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," he wrote.
"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."
However, Svensson did highlight that Sony has been transparent in its relationship with Capcom concerning the outage and that it wants to bring back the PSN service back online, but only once it's secure.
The Capcom executive emphasized how this hacker attack affected everyone, not just Sony but also gamers as well as games developers or publishers.
"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'."