The client companies control it. In this case, for whatever reason they don't give the go ahead to Sony and Microsoft until the maintainence cycle is over. I'm sure they have a reason. Its probably financial and has to do with costs for their server architecture and being able to roll back from failure.
I concur. The lease they could do is give us something to read while we wait. Rather than twiddling our thumbs. Impatiently. Hey how about thumb wrestling? No, that's even worse