Originally Posted by
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I have an even harder time believing it was new members over Sony scheduling maintenance. Both Sony and Microsoft are keenly aware of how many consoles are projected in sales for Christmas. Clearly, only a portion of new owners and kids require new accounts, as many are previous generation owners with already existing accounts. However, their administrators do project expected system updates and downloads on those consoles combined with new members. Of course there will be higher traffic and perhaps some slow downs, but nothing a staff shouldn't prepared to handle without having to experience any prolonged service interruptions. A complete crash of your login servers over a large connection of farms is highly suspicious of an attack and your failure or capacity to ward it.