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PS4 launch stalls with PSN connection error 'NW-31453-6'

GameZone's Matt Liebl writes, "Today, the PlayStation 4 released to the general public today, meaning no more controlled testing environments for Sony. And what's the first problem?
Well, for me at least, it appears to be some sort of network connection error."

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yellowgerbil3816d ago

I'm running into that right now...
Been trying to log on for a half hour...

M-M3816d ago

The servers must be flooded like crazy lol.

brbobcat3816d ago

Yea, I'm gonna assume servers are just packed with ppl trying to login. To be expected, but still not happy about it.

Not good Sony, not good. Hopefully that PS+ money will fix this :P Throw money at the problem!!!

Kingthrash3603816d ago (Edited 3816d ago )

only gunna get worse...as the system hasnt fully released yet...its only 10pm here in cali
but honestly this is to be expected this early.
its annoying but every launch will be this way...

Pixel_Enemy3816d ago

Mine is working perfectly. I am downloading Flower, Resogun, Sound Shapes, playing Killzone and Battlefield. Synced my facebook account and tested remote play. All working just as expected.

Tru_Blu3816d ago (Edited 3816d ago )

pixel what is the size of that BF4 download? NVM didn't see the playing. Must have the disc.

thereapersson3816d ago (Edited 3816d ago )

@BRBOBCAT

Yeah, I half expected this. My PS4 won't be here until Tuesday next week so hopefully things will be ironed out over the weekend.

Afterall, this is is hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections happening all at the same time as we speak on launch. It's almost like a huge DDoS...

mandf3816d ago

Network doesn't fully go up until 3 as with any other major update. It has to do with a full usa release. I could be wrong but it's the most likely scenario. I hope.

lsujester3816d ago

I figured they would be, which is why I DL'd the firmware update ahead of time. I imagine I'll just install that and have the Killzone campaign and ACIV to keep me busy for several days until things get calmed down.

mandf3816d ago

Works now 218 eastern time have fun everyone

guitarded773816d ago

AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I just want to play a freakin' game, but I'm stuck on "Please wait..." and can't back out!!! Just let me play Killzone PS4!!!

FACTUAL evidence3815d ago

Mines is stuck on please wait.....

DeadMansHand3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

Psn for ps4 not live til midnight pacific time. I am west coast and got home at 1230 and logged right in. Got my psn ID set up, linked faceboom , redeemed 10 dollar gift card and currently downloading my battlefield 4 upgrade with it (woot).

UltimateMaster3815d ago

Nah, actually they didn't update the PS Store just yet, the update is coming today.
It's being released 3 hours later from NY eastern time and will be at midnight pacific time.
Nobody gets left behind nor gets it slightly earlier.

morganfell3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

Just finished a 5 hour run on the PS4. Things seem to have stablized as I and all of my friends that grabbed a PS4 have all gotten through the earlier stuck area and things have now been smooth. Less than 1 minute from download until Warframe was playable. Pretty quick and the store flies.

Sono4213815d ago

I got in just fine? Even signed out and signed back in this morning.. OMG it's everything I was hoping for! <3 only problem iv'e come across is the snap feature kinda glitches out... other than that everything has been amazing! :D and I wasn't even looking forward to this game but.... resogun is actually so good and addicting! and kllzone's graphics.... omg...... OMG..... So glad I got a PS4 :D

hakeem09963815d ago

SUCKS to be an early adopter .Good thing i decided to seat this one out this year .I'll get my Xbox with Titanfall and my PS4 with Uncharted 4

SaturdayNightBeaver3815d ago

To me more like Sony sold you a "half" finished product. Guess why Japan have to wait 3 or 4 months later for console? They would't tolerate that BS.

darthv723815d ago

seems the PSN was slow this morning (6am pacific time). I was trying to dl a couple of things on my PS3 from the store.

DoA Ultimate was sitting at 0% on my PS3 for half an hour and that is only 4gb in size (the F2P version). Sin Mora was in the pending mode.

I decided to just set it and forget it as i had to get to work.

timl2413815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

You all laughed at "the power of the cloud." The reason it was talked about so much was because of the 300,000 servers the Xbox One is going to have. This won't be an issue at launch for Microsoft. Maybe Sony would've benefitted from having the power of the cloud ;)

But, Sony does no wrong. I get that servers are packed but come on. You're telling me they didn't see this coming? They knew, and they probably knew servers would be down. Just another Sony game console that has connectivity problems.

It looks like paying for Xbox live all these years is going to pay off, because with 300,000 servers I can't see this problem for the Xbox. Maybe next gen Sony, maybe.

Go on, disagree with me. I could be wrong. If I am, oh well. But I doubt I am.

MazzingerZ3815d ago

Hope they learned from this and PAL launch goes smoother...

ThanatosDMC3815d ago

Lucky bastards... I need one too.

AndrewLB3815d ago

Much like the government health care roll-out of Obamacare... Don't you think Sony should have anticipated this? It's not difficult to load-test a web server to make sure it could handle the traffic.

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majiebeast3816d ago

Its like a mmo launch servers are getting hammered like crazy.

MRMagoo1233816d ago

yeh, agree 100%, its like launch day of a new wow xpac lol its takes for ever to get connected and when you finally do its laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag city for a couple of days till it dies down lol

MizTv3816d ago

It worked for me the second try

GribbleGrunger3816d ago

Yeah, there are literally thousands of people trying to log in and download ALL the free stuff. I would wait until tomorrow when things settle down a little.

spatt3816d ago

incorrect, hundreds of thousands..lol

PSnation43816d ago

its going to get worst tomorrow @_@.. gonna wait till 4am est to log in lol

GribbleGrunger3816d ago

In the mean time, enjoy watching all these channels:

http://www.twitch.tv/direct...

Abriael3816d ago

It happens with every single MMO launch. Nothing to worry about. No network can hold hundreds of thousands of people trying to log in again and again exactly at the same time.

GarrusVakarian3816d ago

You are stating facts, but will probably be labelled as a damage controller. Sad.

Abriael3816d ago

@Lukas_Japonicus: it's ok. I get called damage controller and fanboy in turn for Sony, Microsoft Nintendo and even PC gaming, so I guess I'm just balanced :D

Omegasyde3816d ago

This won't happen to Xbox One launch because of the "power of the cloud"

(Someone had to troll.)

timl2413815d ago

@omega

This probably won't happen at launch for MS because of the 300,000 servers. Seems like Sony could've added a few more thousand

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Jaqen_Hghar3816d ago

same with a man but he did play Shadowfall's first chapter before needing to eat and fall asleep now.

BoriboyShoGUN3816d ago

I'm in boys skipped the main screen and signed in through the menu!!!

princejb1343815d ago

Thank god is not only happening to me
I was panicking thinking my system was defective

llMurcielagoll3815d ago

Yup I wouldn't worry about that, so far I have never seen a perfect launch when it comes to connecting online.

This is nothing compared to the early access PS4 faults we saw in the news. At least your PS4 is working and not bricked and that is a bright side lol.

Depending on how good Sony with resolving overflowing server traffic it could take from a couple of days to a couple of weeks.

Be patient.

Crazay3815d ago

Can't say I'm at all surprised by this. Hopefully it's worked out by the time I get home tonight

AbortMission3815d ago

Really? I honestly have had no probs whatsoever in getting into the PS Store or an MP match in KZ:SF

qu1ckset3815d ago

when using wifi mine kept failing but when i did a wired connection it worked for me, good luck guys!

yellowgerbil3815d ago

I got it working at about 4.30 in the morning, after a short nap. It was just too many people at once so if you wait till a time where 1mil people aren't trying in tandem you get on fine.

Digital-Devil3815d ago

Weren't there a few articles floating aroung n4g about this very same issue? If I recall, it was suggested to download the patch before the ps4 release to avoid this very problem.

yellowgerbil3815d ago

this wasn't about the update. It was about signing into your account (ps3 or from online) onto the ps4.
I am pretty sure it isn't an issue anymore as it was just too many at once trying to log on (I got in fine around 4.30am)

avengers19783815d ago

Mine has been working great. Played KZSF last night till about 3 am.
Got up downloaded Blacklight and resogun. Hope everyone else is having as much fun as I am. PS4 is pretty great IMO

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Pogmathoin3815d ago

I keep timing out.... Feels like GTA5 today....

WhiteDynamite3815d ago

Apparently, during the Sim City debacle, the good folks at Sony were too busy still high-fiving one another from the reveal instead of paying attention.

Some "launch".

Oh well, at the least the news about Uncharted was cool.

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animegamingnerd3816d ago

Am i the only one who isn't shocked by this?

GarrusVakarian3816d ago

Neither am i......millions of gamers trying to connect at the exact same time.....like trying to direct the river Nile to flow through a garden hose.

andibandit3815d ago

I think millions is perhaps exaggerating a bit

Langkasuka3816d ago (Edited 3816d ago )

Sony was expecting it too, so they've released some web sites to download the patch via USB.
I hope our EU friends is taking notes on this for their PS4 launch... :)

MRMagoo1233816d ago (Edited 3816d ago )

no us folk getting the console at a later date we are smart enough to know this already lol.

animegamingnerd3816d ago

That is pretty smart they probably saw what happened with the Wii U day 1 update a year ago and decided to come up with an alternative

0ut1awed3816d ago

^^
They've done the same with the PS3 all these years with every update. You even had to put it in a small folder called "PS3" and all that jazz.

Still it's defiantly a nice option to have.

beebap3815d ago

Had already thought of this so yea we downloading it before launch.

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violents3815d ago

to be sony did announce before the launch that they were going to spend the first two to three months getting all the and a online services running. so everyone was warned that certain features may not be available at launch.

everyone just needs to calm down and be patient.

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ElementX3816d ago

I downloaded the patch onto a USB so I'd avoid this problem

brbobcat3816d ago

Patch only took me like 5 min. to download. It's the connection to PSN that's not working

ElementX3816d ago

It doesn't matter how long it takes to DL if you can't even connect to the network

moparful993815d ago

@element I couldnt log into PSN for 2 hours but still was able to download the patch.. Download and install took 3 1/2 minutes.. I could definitely get used to these new download speeds on PSN.

Fiestabrian3815d ago

Patch took me a minutes a 1 am pacific time

tethered3816d ago

I downloaded it to my computer and saved it to a USB but decided to download it on the PS4 when I got it. It took less time for the download to the PS4 than it did the computer.

STEWIE_PLAY_PS43815d ago

Remember GTAV online same problem!.

jairusmonillas3816d ago

Network overload.

Happens everytime.

They should really put some log in queue.

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mkis0073h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows903h ago(Edited 3h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0071h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19891h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw3h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno3h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy852h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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