Sony ditches PSN in order to deliver a better, global platform
If you've got a PlayStation 3, then you've likely already had an email confirming the end of the PlayStation Network as we know it. Sony is discontinuing the brand in favour of the new Sony Entertainment Network, which will launch on February 8. Your existing PSN account will remain untouched, and simply be renamed.
This new, and admittedly, even more generic sounding name than PSN, should, as Sony states, help the company to "enhance its unique digital entertainment offering."
Quite what this actually means as far as its effect on users isn't all that clear, but it's safe to say that Sony is keen to follow up on Microsoft's recent Xbox dashboard update that further made the Xbox more of a central entertainment system instead of an out-and-out games console.
Let's just hope that, along with all the re-branding Sony also gives some thought to system security while it's at it.
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