Playstation Network is down

From PlayStation Blog EU twitter: We're aware that PSN is currently unavailable and working with the technicians to find out when it will be restored. Apologies.

[kenpachi]

i live in ireland and it works for me

[FAGOL]

Interesting. I live in England and it's not working. I get the 8002A548 error. I even tried my US and Japanese accounts.

[Ace_Man_6]

The only trouble I've got is trying to answer to a friend request

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

goddamit I signed out just to test it and can't sign in back again....

[Denethor_II]

I was playing GT5, very annoying.

[buddymagoo]

Could the new firmware have something to do with it?

[WhittO]

:| really?? This is becoming a habit with PSN, funny how it barely went down and was stable first few years and now its down quite often.

[Dee_91]

down quite often ?
how much is quite often ?
because its rarely down for me
last time it was down for me was during the outage ..

[WhittO]

^^ Well it feels like it has been down alot this past year, yes I understand being down for a month because of hacking, but it has been down several times since then for atleast a day at a time due to "scheduled maintenance".

I mean I remember it coming back online for a week after hack, then going back down again for a day or so, then coming back online then week later offline for maintenance again, I mean, get your s**t together haha.

When XBL has maintenance does their entire network go down and if so how long for? Just curious btw.

I get there are millions on PSN now and it is free, It is just annoying that the network seems less reliable than it was the first few years...

I remember telling all my m8s that even though PSN is free, it is NEVER down and really stable & lag-free, that has gone the way of cross-game chat! hahah

[da_2pacalypse]

another reason that the ps3 is the inferior system. I don't recall the last outage on xbox live.... oh wait, that's because that didn't happen.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Does this seriously pass ass news here on N4G?

@ itsallgud,

By the time you haters were done reading the title, PSN was back up!

[WhittO]

^^ yes maintenance is a good thing and is required, but PSN "maintenance" isn't that, it is the network going down/people unable to login in certain parts of the world, they find a solution then it is online in a few hours (usually) - that's NOT maintenance! Just like it happened today..

Also, it doesn't usually last 1 hour LOL (as you can see by today..), not being funny, but I can't believe when they actually schedule these things...which as I said seems quite often for the size of the maintenance - being from say 11.00-21:00 in my time zone, that to me is most of the day.

O well, it is free, but that is not an excuse to deliver an inferior product...

Also, if it wasn't for us "haters" @NathanExplosion, complaining etc, we probably wouldn't have half the features we do today, so take that as a good thing.
Why would you want to hold Sony in low standards which would only get worse? Yes, you can thank the complainers for in-game XMB and Trophies and every other feature worth talking about..

[fr0sty]

Whoever posted this failed to acknowledge that it isn't a 100% outage, and seems to be focused on the european areas.

[LOGICWINS]

"Whoever posted this failed to acknowledge that it isn't a 100% outage, and seems to be focused on the european areas."

I thought that was obvious since its coming Playstation Blog EU.

EDIT: Yup, its down for me as well. I live in NY.

[FAGOL]

Well it is the European PS Blog twitter. I would put a update saying that it only affects european areas but some people from outside the EU are having problems.

[DaTruth]

It's down in Toronto!

Weird because I just updated and when the PS3 came back, it signed out immediately! Guess updates are on a different network!

[execution17]

I'm in Thunder Bay and I'm signed in, but my brother who lives in the same house can't log in >.>

[ZeroOnyx]

I live in Ohio and it's out here as well.

[Arcee]

I never experienced any downtime at all today when I was on the PSN. *Lives in L.A.*

[princejb134]

omg im in the united states and I'm also getting a error to sign in
if its another hack attack I'm gonna shoot myself

[LOGICWINS]

If it's another hack attack, I'll play the plethora of single player games I have in my backlog and patiently wait for Welcome Back Package #2 :)

[princejb134]

i like that idea logic wins, maybe i can finally finish dead space 2 revelation

[Mr-Dude]

@logicwins

Welcome Back Package #2 LOL!

HAHAHA

[Mrmagnumman357]

yeah i need some more free games, so please hackers ?

[princejb134]

@ miDnIghtEr
i recall people who didn't want to pay for xbox live made a new account monthly just to get a free month
so yea no wonder its so high, it goes both ways on both systems

[DaTruth]

I don't know! I'm getting spam Emails and I don't remember if I gave them my phone number, but all of a sudden I'm getting calls from telemarketers!

It sucks, because I think I got a drug dealers old phone number and people finally stopped calling me just recently!

I barely play those games they gave me and they weren't worth the trouble!

[TheFirstClassic]

I decided to get a good single player game during the last outage, so I picked up infamous. :/ I was kinda annoyed that I could have gotten it for free.

[SilentNegotiator]

ZOMG PSN is down in some regions! Hackerz!!!

Glad to see people are not overreacting.
/s

[DeFFeR]

@cpayne

But, it was good wasn't it? Unless you paid full retail, then you still made a good decision, and got 2 other games for free.

[farhad2k8]

It's fully working for me??!

[Misterhbk]

Just signed in to PSN right now just fine. about to check and see if I can get into uncharted 2 multiplayer

EDIT; yep, works just fine. plenty of other people playing.

[just_looken]

I had a issue like 8ish hrs ago i rest my modem it fixed the issue after being on netflix and idle i logged off a hr ago so i just tried to sighn amd got a error code allwell there probibly doing background stuff. Oh crap right its sony OMG THEY GOT HAXXXXED NO WAIT IS A RANDOM TERORIST GROUP THEY BLEW UP THE SERVERS fn flame articles why not bash m$ for once f me.

[Trebius]

mine seems to be workin only on certain accounts. So dont think its as serious as ppl make it out to be.

[morkendo23]

live in united states work fine for me, downloaded RATCHET AN CLANK all 4 one demo.

[theonlylolking]

HAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jk

[wenaldy]

I can sign in by using my primary asia account, but my friend is nowhere to be seen.. I dunno, maybe its late here, 2 a.m..

[dafada]

wtf im online right now on the psn...im on this site using my ps3 right now....works fine for me...

[dangert12]

the web browser is not apart of psn the stores etc account setting etc are

[LOGICWINS]

Was just about to post that. The Internet Browser on the PS3 has nothing to do with PSN.

[dafada]

LOL I KNOW...i mean im online the PSN RIGHT NOW...i'm downloading reesident evil 4 RIGHT NOW

[dafada]

oohhh......crap mines down now got got signed out like 40min ago.......lucky my resi4 finished downloading time to play dat

[SnotyTheRocket]

You don't have to be logged in to download something that was already on the downloading list, I was able to download fancy pants after the big outage.

[SolidAhmed]

i live in Saudi Arabia and am using the US account and it is not working?

[solidworm]

IT be Those Damn haCKERz.

[spunnups]

livein the US and it was down about 20 min ago

[yewles1]

This is creepy. I managed to sign in, but no one's around.

[remanutd55]

u online ?
i cant sign in

[yewles1]

I'm currently in, but it feels so empty. Friends list is at 0, it's freaky.

[Miiikeyyy]

My friends list is always at 0 http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/st...

[iamgoatman]

Like the Omega man of PSN.

[darkgoon3r96]

Weird, I was playing Black Ops on my US Account a couple of hours ago, but couldn't sign into my UK (EU) account, hopefully this will be sorted out before Battlefield 3's beta, you never know for how long this is going to run, and how far this will spread out of Europe.

[trancefreak]

Not working in so cal ah well just whne i get a chance to go online its broken go figuire

[SolidStoner]

I am playing Blac Ops online just right now... live in Latvia (registered as Finland!) cant register my real country in PSN.. :(

[IAmTheTruth]

"What? PSN has been down for 20 minutes? Must be teh haxx0rz!1!1! LULZ Teim 2 play Geeerz treeeee ON MUH ECKZ BAUHKS"

Calm down haters, server maintenance ain't an issue.

[theEx1Le]

Not maintenance, or there would have been a notice. Probably something silly as usual, be fixed in no time. It'll be fine later so your right about people needing to calm down.

[TopDudeMan]

Hopefully it's not been hacked again... :(

[killcycle]

lol @ your disagree xD

[TopDudeMan]

Lmao. Someone clearly has been waiting for the psn to be hacked again so they can come and troll everyone :D

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

if its hacked im trading in my ps3 and focusing on xbox live.

yeeeeeeeeahhhhh i totally mean that n4g.

[cliffbo]

omg psn is down for a few mins ill have to sell my ps3 and buy an xbox 360 yeah right!

[waltyftm]

Very funny.

[sackb0y]

thats why you buy both systems.

[spike]

California USA is down as of right now

[Mr-Dude]

Maybe they popped a server when updating the store... :P

[IAmTheTruth]

On the logical side; update 3.72 was just released a little while ago and it boasted "improved network stability".

What we might be experiencing now is just glitch in the new firmware.

[padz1]

You are the truth.

[hiredhelp]

Kinda embarrasing one if meant to make psn more stable.

[_Aarix_]

The word is "ironic"

[ColdNorway]

A software update is suddenly required to log in.

[LoneWanderer09]

Not worry about it, gets me a chance to play some single player

[judispriest]

I live in Iowa and it's down. Its sad that ps can't come close to the reliability of xbox when it comes to a network.

[Treyb3yond]

A shame that Microsoft can come close to the reliability of apple when it comes to operating systems!

*zing!*

[FragMnTagM]

Really?

[Blink_44]

Was working for me 2 hours ago, not working now.

[mrcapcom]

glad i got resident evil 4 b4 it went down

[theEx1Le]

Indeed, £6 well spent :D

[Blink_44]

Same here dude, wasn't able to download the psone games tho.

[BeAGamer]

what else is new?

[Sheikah]

Denmark is effed as well :) just tried it to check out ps+.. no dice :)

[joeyisback]

georgia its out here :/

[SuperbVillain]

omg nooo i was hoping to get on and play some madden and bad company 2 after i showered :(

[Mr-Dude]

here are some answers

http://www.thesixthaxis.com...

[MasterCornholio]

They did rebuild the network a while ago so i am not surprised if they ran into a bug and had to take it down to get rid of it.

edit: lol theres a ton of trolls here.

[CynicalVision]

Fine for me. :3

[phatfreddy1978]

Down in nyc

[htownrocket87]

I'm in Texas and its down for me as well. Thank god i downloaded resident evil 4 last night!

[Tommykrem]

This is the worst outage ever! It interrupted me in the middle of a SSARPBC match! I was leading 2 - 0 against in a 1 against 2 match damn it!

[STGuy1040]

I'm located on the East Coast and can't log in.

[narutogameking]

It's been down for me too here in Illinois, United States.
I wouldn't be surprised if some hackers got all butthurt over Sonys new terms of service for PSN.

[Bladesfist]

Seriously? Most high end servers automatically switch to back ups. Look at big web server and other servers and a lot give a 100% up time guarantee. They also self correct most bugs that could cause the network to go down as well.

[artsaber]

RE4 HD Last night. Guess I'll take a few breaks inbetween Gears 3 and R3 to try it out.

But on topic - no network is perfect and 10/10 will experience some downtime sooner or later - even if for a couple of seconds.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

I hope its back up by sunday so I can watch my sunday ticket....

edit-- lol yeah I guess, but I will be fine if its up by sunday morning so I can watch the sunday ticket that I paid a pretty penny for. If its not up by then I will be kinda pissed, but will probably get a 25$ credit like people in the first week did.

[PR_FROM_OHIO]

Sunday?? If it's not up soon Sony will b in trouble bc fans will b outraged!!!!!!!!!

[STGuy1040]

I'm kicking myself for not downloading RE2 and RE3 last night.

[kma2k]

my wife just called me at work, "im so sorry, i think i just broke your ps3, i tried to log into netflix & its bringin up some error number"

lol yea its safe to say my wife dosent use my ps3 much lol

[Snowii]

for fucks sake

sony supplies to much trolling material

[0321]

I'm in WI and it works perfectly fine for me.

[Fox_Mamba]

This is such BS. If PSN is down then Sony can give the courtesy of why or when it shall be back on. Sure inconvenience to me, but come on no update to let customers know. Now it all makes sense why we had to agree on their new agreement. Crap!

[tayz]

i really wanted to play psn. damn it!

[Xoypod]

Weird, I'm online with PSN right now. Not down everywhere maybe?

[outwar6010]

down for me i really wanted to play assassins creed brotherhood online today im trying to get to level 50 before the next comes out

[lorianguy]

I can get on:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/265...

[DC1980]

My Japanese PSN account works

[generalthadeape]

UN**BEE**LEAVE**ABLE!!!

Say it isn't so...

[trenso1]

Well i live in NY my first sign in timed out from the psn but the secong one worked but my friends list has everyone on the default color and avatar and doesn't say the last time they signed in so still some issues but online anyways

[NIRVANArazor]

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed...

look at the xbox fanboys go...

[Bleach]

This is inconvenient but these things happens, not every online service is perfect.

[Drab]

Down in Tennessee crap I wanted to Co-Op on white knight chronicles 2....oh wait no one plays it anyway-_-

[Bleach]

Can't tell if you're trolling or not, you know the WKC2 servers are always busy so i don't know why you would say no one plays it.

[Drab]

Wow you spent a couple of minutes to replay to my comment.....now I'm an american~

[LiquidSnack]

It's working now

Downloading RE4 HD at lightning speed thanks to the majority of users being offline :D

[MakinBaconXD]

Everyone that's panicking you can stop now it's back on.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

Amazing the day the asshats at Zipper Interactive release a patch for their broken ass game that has to go through QA the psn has problems.....remember the psn went down a few days after Socom 4 was released. Interesting huh???? BLAME LUISI....

I was on the psn for a while this morning, started to download the socom patch the 22mb patch went fine and then it installed thats when my psn issues occured. About an hour ago it let me on with no online friends and allowed the game to load up and start up the big patch downloads and after they install it goes back down.

"CONSPIRACY" Its the evil Zipper Interactive who are responsible for both the downfall of Socom and the PSN.
(Believe half of what you see, less of what you hear and none of what I typed....its all in good fun)

Dont wanna get sued for defamation of character, but I really dislike Seth Luisi and would like to see him tarred and feathered and have a restraining order put on him to stay away from Socom. :)

[LFC1EE]

JOKE!

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

Its up now with all the friends list working and store is working 4:36 est

[majedx9]

PSN is fine in KSA

[xX TriiCKy Xx]

I signed in automatically for a moment then I got signed out with an error code.

[Tito08]

PSN is already back on, so no big deal after all!!!!

[STGuy1040]

It's working for me now... excellent.

[Droid Control]

I've been experiencing sign in problems all night. Its really been quite annoying because i wanted to watch a a movie streamed from my PC...

[DrRobotnik]

It would be so nice if they give us a heads up of when they schedule down time for maintenance, instead of some random error code.

[PixL]

I wonder if we get to know what was the cause.

[KontryBoy706]

LOL at all the fanboys who was praying it was hacked again so they could have something to talk and make youtube videos about.

[strifeblade]

NOT SURPRISING

[Laughingman554]

its working fine for me im on BFBC2 right now

[slaton24]

well i can tell u this bring on the psn down time...we need maintanence to make sure everything is still fine when i have an error it last maybe an hour but its only the store not the online part....u guys just stop complaining and xbox fans get out of here

[spike]

Gears Of War 3 is awesome

[Tanir]

really...... a topic because psn is down -_-, people have no lives haha

[SuperBeast811]

THIS IS OUR LIVES!!! LOL thats why PS3 exclusives dont sell we spend ALL our time on N4G!

[Tanir]

*sigh, haha. well my belief is that their are so many exclusives that PS3 users have to choose wisely, where as on 360, there barely is any exclusives so when one does get released they all flock to it :P

im just being dum haha

[P_Bomb]

Why is this still stickied? Anybody with a day job/school will have missed the whole thing anyways.

[andibandit]

Im sure different time zones around the world guarantees, that somebody has time off and wanted to log onto psn.

[monkeymagik]

I live on the moon, and even though it's moving away PSN is fine.

[Snowii]

luckily i cant play my ps3 since theres a problem with my screen

but if i would id probably finish the black ops veteran campaign anyway

[andibandit]

How is this issue still up

[Indigon]

No problems here (Netherlands).

[Shojin1]

How convenient for this to happen the day and date Gears3 releases... Must be a cyber onslaught going on behind the scenes... or maybe it was just a regular update/firmware. Un-sticky :(

[Tempjf]

Someone tell me how twitter comments keep getting approved on here. How is that news worthy material. I thought it had to be a story from a web site and not someones comment on their twitter page or face book page. In that case everyone and their mother can submit a news article on this inconsistent site.