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Digital
Sony to merge PlayStation and Entertainment networks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 7 February 2012
Sony Corp is rolling its PlayStation Network into the existing Sony Entertainment Network, putting its online gaming platform more closely alongside the entertainment conglom’s other content-on-demand services, including the Sony streaming music offer.
The PlayStation Network has been operational since 2006, while the Sony Entertainment Network – originally branded Qriocity – went live in 2010.
Both were targeted by last year’s big Sony hack attack that resulted in the personal data of users being made public, and both services going offline for a time, though the embarrassing data spill has been more frequently associated with the PlayStation Network, mainly because of its larger user-base, and that may have been a motivating factor in phasing out the PSN brand.
Though Sony insists the combining of PSN with SEN is part of its bids to unify its digital content brands, and that would make sense too, given the size of the former’s userbase, who may be better persuaded to try out Sony’s music, video and ebook services once the two networks are integrated.