Arrested for Video Games!

Police In Britain have arrested an 18 year old man accused of hacking offenses of play station and Xbox's networks.  The criminal was also arrested for giving false information known as "swatting". The criminal who is remained unknown tried to disrupt the networks of the consoles on Christmas morning and succeeded. I was not able to use play station on Christmas because of the hack in Britain, as well as millions of other people. What convinced him to do this beats me?