When will PSN come back online?

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According to a Sony executive, May 31st. That would mean that PSN would have been down for six weeks by the time services are restored. Every day this outtage continues I am more and more embarassed to have put my faith on Sony. A company that has proven over and over that they dont care about their customers. Promising game vouchers for PSPGo conversions and then backing out. Charging developers for bandwidth costs on PSN, which means smaller and shorter lived demos for customers. Go to wikipedia and count how many firmware updates that fix or add nothing there are. Firmware updates that are just "security fixes." Sony was completely on top of hacking when it came to their data and those patches came quickly. I am not worried about my data, but at this point I'm beggining to worry about Playstation exclusive developers like Q-Games (of Pixel Junk fame.) All of their profits come from PSN sales. Sony said theyd be helping developers out, but with such an extended period of downtime I'm sure some studios will fall on hard times. At the same time, I am worried about those who are not involved in games like I am. Those who get their news from the local NBC affiliate that dont know what is going on. Are they going to buy the NGP? What can Sony say? At this point just hold off the launch for an extra week and announce the re-launch during E3. This outtage hurts gaming as a whole. If we are going to move to cloud gaming and cross-platform gaming, we need everything to be secure. Hackers were there before, they'll be there after. You have to build everything with that threat in mind. I'm not excusing the hackers, but Sony was ridiculously unprepared. Meanwhile, I'm going through my pile-of-shame, which is holding me over until L.A. Noire. I'm almost done with Arkaham Asylum and will probably go to Dead Space afterwards. My heart goes out to those of you who bought a PSPGo. (source: Joystiq) Update : Sony has said that they have not released a timeline for PSN to come back online. So instead of May 31st it is indefinite. That's better?