Some PSN developers have expressed some concern about Sony’s plans for multiple updates once the PS Store relaunches. In an interview with EDGE, an anonymous developer felt that there will be such a “backlog of traffic” that it will cause titles to lose the needed exposure. The anonymous developer said:

“As a developer, I feel very sorry for those teams that did try to release their titles during the PSN outage window. Beyond that, I feel sorry for those that are attempting to launch games in the days following the outage, as there will likely be such a backlog of traffic that it may be hard to be noticed in the flurry of ‘get everything back up and running’.

The absence of PSN has slowed the development of online functionality for games that rely on PSN, because you can’t test your PSN-dependant features without it. My project was fortunate enough to have robust offline / LAN support that allowed us to test core gameplay features without online access, despite the outage. We’re still on target for our original release date as a result, although we’re very glad our original release date didn’t fall within the PSN outage window.”

CEO of Housemarque, Ilari Kuittinen, is worried too but is more worried about the free titles Sony are offering as part of their Welcome Back package which may discourage users to buy new PSN titles such as Outland. The CEO added:

“My biggest concern is whether people will come back to use the system and browse the Playstation Store.

On top of that, the second issue is that everyone now gets games for free (including our Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD), so people might just play the free games for a while. By the time they are ready to buy something, Outland may be old news.”

The Store is rumoured to come back online on May 24.