Sony embarrassed over Japan’s no to PlayStation relaunch
17 May 2011
Even as Sony moves to relaunch its PlayStation Network service across the world, one country that is not on board is Japan.
A Japanese government official who spoke to Dow Jones Newswires yesterday, cited security concerns for the country not allowing Sony to launch PlayStation Network within its borders.
"As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the 1 May press conference," Kazushige Nobutani, Japan's director of media and content in the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry told Dow Jones.
According to industry sources, the Japanese appear to be a little more strict with Sony than countries in other regions that have already allowed the company to reboot its network including the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.
PlayStation Network troubles first hit the company when its servers were attacked by a hacker or hackers, following which its was forced to take down its PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment services.
It said that over 100 million customers had their personal data stolen. Sony has spent the last several weeks working on improving the security of its services to limit the chances a recurrence of the problems.
