The PlayStation Network has been offline for more than three weeks, but despite the outage, April saw an increase in PlayStation 3 sales. According to a Sony statement from Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications at SCEA, NPD reported a 13 percent April increase for hardware sales and 40 percent year-over-year increase in software sales.

"We continue to see a lot of great momentum at the retail level, and appreciate the support we've received from our partners, retailers and customers since the criminal attack on the PlayStation Network," Seybold said. "We hope to have services restored as soon as we can."Of course, April had 20 days to sell PS3s before the outage occurred, so the real test of consumer loyalty and the impact of this outage will come next month when May's sales are revealed.