"PlayStation Network is offline for scheduled maintenance from 18:00 on Monday 13 October 2014 until 01:00 Tuesday 14 October 2014 BST.
During the maintenance, you will be unable to access the following services:
PlayStation Store on all devices.
PlayStation Network Account Management.
PlayStation Network Account Registration.
Entertainment services.
Online gameplay - however, you may still play online if you are already signed into your SEN account via the relevant device before the maintenance begins.
In addition, you will not be able to sign in to PlayStation Network from eu.playstation.com."
A recent trophy list published on the PlayStation Network contains hints that Sony is testing PlayStation PC trophies.
Sony removed the ability to transfer games from PS3 to Vita, which unfortunately locks Vita players out of a lot of PS1 classics.
Sony really hates the Vita. Years later and they're still finding ways to snub owners of the device.
It seems like this was included in the most recent PS3 and Vita fw updates. So as long as i dont upgrade my systems... it should still work.
PlayStation Network currently generates over a staggering $14 billion in digital sales.
In fluffy's voice "DAMN"
PlayStation is universal brand. It sells in every country and the brand recognition is just on another level. I think it was like 2018 or 2019 when PlayStation generated more money than Xbox and Nintendo combined
MastaMold
Sony doesn't need GP because they have a huge library of games from their past generations that people can't wait to play again with trophy support. And they have been the best ever since launch of PS5. Game after game while as a Xbox series X owner I am playing the wait game. HFW, GT7, GOW, TOKYO Ghostwire and rumor has it TLOU remake will release this year too. While Ms have all the resources and not much AAA content
Hopefully 2023 is when Xbox can get on a steady schedule for releasing awesome games. Honestly this is the last straw if anything like this happens again than Phil has to and I do mean has to go. He can't be failing this badly with the amount of resources at his disposal
Love to hear it, now keep giving us the usual AAA single player bangers, keep the gaas rubbish to a minimum.
That's good money!
Playstation Network includes all digital purchases, DLC, MT, the monthly/ yearly fee, PSnow and any other paid service on the network.
120mill PS4 and 20 mill PS5, I'm not surprised.
Lol, why mention they don't need a GP service when they are actually doing a similar service come June. I would take that to mean they see more $$ coming from it.
I would surmises the other 2 systems generate in the billions for their digital services as well.
Wouldn't be the PSN without some downtime... Hopefully this is to do with FW 2.0 so at least something decent will come of it.
Probably prep for firmware 2.0
Is this going to continue thoughout the generation ?
Maybe after the downtime we will get the firmware update that has long been overdue. Every time Nintendo does maintenance they release an update a few day's later. But to be honest Sony do these maintenance periods all the time with little change so I don't know what they are doing.