I work with both PlayStation and Xbox network services (such as the ones affected by this leak) -- Microsoft's APIs are in a different league than the PlayStation ones. API versioning, contracts, solid SDKs, really solid separation of functionality and great coverage of core features. Sony's PlayStation API was clearly an afterthought at best, and a late night project after a drinking binge at worst.

Another instance that reminded me Sony is indeed not a software company is their mobile app. MITM'd it to discover that they were sending something like 500 requests (totalling over 100MB IIRC) every time I opened the app. Wtf?

But yeah, their services are buggy as crap.

Both PS4 and Xbox One network documentation is bordering on useless. I've had a case once where the method copied straight from documentation wouldn't work, we spent half a day debugging it, no dice - we sent an email to a developer support address, they got back with "oh actually, it's not implemented, sorry".

This sounds almost exactly like my experience attempting to develop an app for MySpace back in the day. "Oh shit, Facebook has apps! We need apps!" → I copy and paste their example code, and try to run it → Nothing happens; no hello world, no errors.