Notes handed out before a Sony press conference today (timed so conveniently at 1am EDT in the US, and noon on the Sunday of Golden Week in Japan) reveal that Sony plans to offer free downloads of unidentified “content,” 30 days of free PlayStation Plus access to new and existing members, and 30 days of free Qriocity service. The paper also says that PSN service will be restored “soon.”
Two days ago, a PlayStation Blog Q&A post mentioned that the company was considering a “goodwill gesture” to PSN users (and sure, why not Qriocity users too) put out by the two-week outage. The company will likely have to provide much more dramatic gestures to appease all the government organizations who have taken interest in the case (and, you know, that enormous data leak).
Sony “Executive Deputy President” Kaz Hirai has yet to take the stage, so there may be more details forthcoming, like the exact date of PSN reactivation. Follow along after the break for pseudo-liveblog coverage.
PSN ‘welcome back program’ includes a free download, 30 days free PlayStation Plus, Qriocity originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 01 May 2011 00:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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