Borne Games’ The Fancy Pants Adventures hit Sony’s PlayStation Network on April 19, although you would have had to snap up the game pretty sharpish after hackers forced Sony to pull the service offline the following night.
As such, the studio was only able to flog the title for one day – something that has understandably rattled the game’s creator, Brad Borne.
Speaking during an email chat with PlayStation Universe earlier this week, Borne expressed his concerns over the whole affair, highlighting how week-one sales make up a substantial portion of overall units sold.
“Well, for the past 5 days that our game has been out on PSN, we’re only been able to sell it for one day,” Borne told us on Monday.
“First week sales make up a pretty huge portion of overall sales, though I’m hoping for a longer tail because of our strong online community from the Flash games.”
"Visibility makes or breaks downloadable games, and being a new release is the easiest way to get a week of high visibility, if PSN is down for most of our week, I hope Sony doesn’t just let us get buried next week…”
However, speaking to us the following day, Borne now seemed confident that this wouldn’t be the case.
"Well, I talked to EA, and I’m more confident now that Sony isn’t going to leave us hanging. I’m a bit less scared than before, and if any user accounts or PSN was compromised, it’s definitely better if the whole thing is taken down (all speculation on my part, still no clue why it’s down)" he said.
PSU contacted other developers in regards to new PSN games going live the week PSN was compromised, but they declined to comment.
Sony said that it is hoping to have PSN restored “within a week” of April 26.