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I'm in no rush to update, and I'm still deciding if I'm just going to sell my PS3.  

If it had been another week I would have. 

If you own a 360, just mothball your PS3.  If you don't, you have to factor in the costs- I figure if you own a 360 for a 2yrs the cost of switching will be $400+.  That's a little too steep.  A 360 price cut is coming though.

I went ahead with the update early this morning.  The process is pretty simple.  Initiate the firmware update (took about 2 min to download/install).  Attempt to log in.  A screen pops up that forces you to change your password.  After that, you can access "parts" of the network.  I tried going to the PSN store, but got a pop up message that it was still disabled.  Then I jumped onto home and saw that it was working just fine. 

I seem to recall seeing in another article that you would only be able to perform the password change from the machine you registered with. Password change on the PSN website works just fine regardless though, so I just did that and I'll deal with the update when I have a reason to turn the machine on again.

Main problem I have with the 360 is having to pay for Xbox Live. More specifically, having to call up that bloody call center when I want to cancel Xbox Live because I'm done with whatever game I was playing.

How a company like Microsoft can't figure out that you need a "cancel" button on the system in the same place with the "subscribe" button is beyond me, but I avoid buying multiplayer games on that system for just that reason.

oh... they know that button would help. 

Wow, never thought people would drop the PS3 just because of this. How interesting. But why not keep it as an alternative blue ray with the occasional game play? I wish I had a PS2 just to play GTA Vice City and San Andreas every once in a while. I mean, you already have it, why not just keep it?

Fear not the thieves that prowl through the broadband.

The NSA is all knowing...and most likely employs them.

Now.  Let us go back to being busy little bees.

All is well.

-.-

More importantly, Sony Station is up and running, so we can play Pirates of the Burning Sea again. And we get free stuff. Free stuff is always nice, especially since they really didn't have anything to steal from my SOE account. I didn't even have my name on it.

JUST because of this?? My initial reaction was that this is going to be catastrophic for Sony.