Crisis at the PSN Day 23 and Nintendo... might actually get ahead.

We shouldn't even be having this conversation. Nintendo should have, on opening day of the 3DS, had both the 3DSWare Store and the DSiWare Store already available and open for business for the 3DS, instead of handicapping their own handheld by insisting on forcing people to buy 40 dollar 3DS game carts for a few months until they somehow, out of the goodness of their hearts (hah hah) got the two stores running in Late May (barring any further stupidity out of Nintendo).

So it stands to reason, even with the now 3 week crisis at the PSN, that only by Sony lying down and waving Nintendo forward can Nintendo somehow get it's shops up and running before Sony gets the PSN up again... which, actually... might happen.

I just saw something on Wikipedia's PSN page which suggests that maybe, maybe, the PSN might be back up by May 31st 2011... which, actually, gives Nintendo more than enough time to put out it's Late May update and get it's stores up and running days before Sony if... they don't delay or the President of Nintendo doesn't jump off a cliff screaming "I DON'T WANT TO BE NUMBER ONE!!" or something... of course Sony can still get the PSN up any day now... and there's a ton of days left before we get near Late May (I start counting at the 21st, the supposed end of the world day the latest nutter and his doomsday cult predicted would be the end of the world... yeah, right) so... well, like I said the only thing that can make Nintendo come out ahead of Sony is... well... Sony. Because certainly right now Nintendo is not actually trying to get ahead on it's own merits let me tell you... oh well.

We'll keep an eye on the two and see who flinches (and opens or reopens their store/stores) first. Stay tuned.