Nobody knows exactly when PlayStation Network services will be back to normal, but Sony's problems won't just suddenly end when it finally does. The company still has to make compensations to all parties affected by the outage or risk losing them. That doesn't just apply to consumers but to third-party developers as well.
"I have no idea yet what Sony are going to do to help developers such as ourselves but I have a feeling they are thinking about doing something or they will lose developers which of course is pretty bad for them," said Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert.
Q-Games is the studio responsible for the PixelJunk games and is considered one of Sony's top PSN developers. As such, the outage has affected the studio's bottom line severely since nobody can buy their releases.
The Q-Games boss remains optimistic, however, saying, "At the moment I think they are running around patching holes etc., and in a week or two they'll have something more concrete to say".
In its latest PSN status update, Sony said they expect "a few more days before we see the services resumed."
Subject: Sony Risk Losing Devs 
Thu May 12, 2011 3:51 am
