"Of course it’s regretful that Sony is encountering issues at such a busy time, and Microsoft takes no joy in the problems gamers are having playing their favourite games online," a Microsoft rep told Electronic Theater.
The rep then stated, “That being said, we are expecting Microsoft’s robust online network to see an increase of traffic from those gamers who own both systems. Being able to play their games via the Xbox Live network could make all the difference for some gamers, and the Xbox Nations event will allow all of them to do just that – whether they have a Gold subscription or not.”
For the Easter weekend, Xbox Live Silver users get to play free from April 21-25, so that, with the PSN outage, gives Microsoft confidence that there will be record numbers of users playing on Live over the holiday.
