Ryan, President of Sony CE, emphasizes these months of confinement in which PlayStation Network has worked perfectly, without falls.
This month of May, which is about to end, has been exactly 15 years since the creation of PlayStation Network, Sony's network for online gaming and various services related to video games, and whose performance has usually been in question. Always in eternal comparison with Xbox Live Gold, the most frequent crashes or even the "PSNgate", the infamous mass account hacking, has caused players to always criticize this function, something that Jim Ryan, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, "Has gone down in history."
A more stable network
Ryan recalls that during this coronavirus crisis, in which the online services of all companies have been tested, PSN has remained stable and smooth. "We have put a lot of effort into making sure our network works," Ryan said in an interview. “The days when Sony was criticized for the unreliability of its online activity should go down in history. Activity levels have been on the radar, in terms of people and playing time, and the network has remained perfect. ”
It should be noted that, like many other companies, Sony decided to reduce the download speed in pursuit of greater stability during this crisis, the coronavirus, although according to Ryan, it was solely and exclusively not to saturate Internet providers. "We believe that it is important to do our part to maintain the stability of the internet, given that an unpredictable number of people are socially distanced and are giving greater importance to accessibility to the network," he says.
In another interview, Ryan assured that around 10 million people downloaded both Journey and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, games that Sony gave a few weeks ago to make the forced confinement to which we have been subjected not only in Spain, but also more bearable. in many other countries around the world.
