Sony promises to refund your PSN wallet

In case you are fed up with the PS3 and want to leave Sony but have a few funds left in your PSN wallet, it will be refunded by Sony to you. In today’s press conference to explain the hacking incident, Sony Playstation division boss Kaz Hirai promised that Sony will refund any remaining amount to PSN users, in case they no longer wish to continue using the service.

Although, we believe it will be trivial to leave Sony after this incident, but there are customers who will. It all comes at a wrong time for Sony, who were doing so well in the gaming industry. It’s nice to know that Sony’s not leaving those who decide to do so out in the wild and are generous enough to refund any money that they might have had in their Playstation Network wallet.

Earlier, there was no such clause to demand a refund of your PSN wallet funds and any money that you had in your PSN wallet had to be spent buying stuff from the PSN store. Sony will now allow users an option for doing so, after this security breach. Although, it’s not clear if it’ll be a temporary implementation which they’ll discontinue after a certain period of time or integrate into the network as a permanent option. The latter seems very unlikely since it makes no sense for them to do so.

We hope that users won’t opt for this option and remain with Sony and the PS3 since this is just an unfortunate event which we are sure Sony can recover from.

They will live through this, but it wont be the same. We hope they catch the hackers and bring them to justice.

We’ll send Sony an email and ask how exactly they plan on doing this.