Hirai, who runs Sony's consumer products and services group, appeared in front of the press on the company's first tablet PC. He failed to mention anything about the PSN outage.

The irony, as Martyn Williams of the IDG News Service this week, was that Hirai "took the stage five days to the hour since the PlayStation Network was taken offline."

A few hours after his appearance Sony released a confirming that personal information, including names, addresses, birth dates, and e-mail addresses were compromised after the hack which led to the network takedown.

The conference on Sunday will give Hirai a chance to level with the media and public about the security breach and service outage. It will also test his ability to perform under the pressure of what is shaping up to be one of the largest PR problems the company has ever faced.

For more information on the outage, check out PC World's . See also