We’ve just had word that the PSN will be down today from 4PM, for approximately 5 hours. The service might be up and down during that time as the magic Sony pixies do their techie stuff.
Speculation abound that this is for the Life With PlayStation update, but it could be another Home upgrade too. Or it might unlock the 8th PPE. Or PS2 compatibility. Or Dreamcast emulation.
Or might just be for general geeky stuff that we’ll never hear about. Yeah. Whoever gives the funniest explanation for the downtime in the comments will win a prize, assuming they’re UK-based.
Via TalkPlayStation.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:38 am
On the dawn of the 27th, when joypads rest in hands,
A new update shall arrive, but will it meet demands?
Could it be the beta, for the illusive Home,
Or perhaps it’s just another empty promise created to make us groan?
So as I sit and speculate, I sit and wish for more,
Will this be the update, that leaves me sat in awe?
Yes I say with crooked smile and my fingers crossed so tight,
I’m fed up of always being treated by SCEE like a piece of shite.
Empty promises and more delays is how it used to be,
But I have a feeling were going to see more from SCEE.
Heavy Rain demo, Open Home beta, maybe a surprise or two,
Maybe a new game mode that auto-plays whilst you pop to the loo!
Wait a minute, what are these words, that spool from out my mouth,
Coming from a good ol’ Gloucester boy, by the way that’s down south.
Why must I speak positively of such an ignorant team?
When all they do is delay things and are generally quite mean.
I had a dream, a prophecy you might say,
I saw myself a 360, just the other day.
With three red lights and engulfed in flames, something came to me.
I have the worlds greatest console and it’s called the PlayStation3.
Even if it all sucks - the update, down time, or whatever,
Just be thankful that YOUR console is 10,000 leagues better.
Whoops, went a bit off topic. Hmm, well, I think we’ll see:
More Home beta invites sent out soon,
More stable servers and less issues,
Some sort of surprise on PSN.
That’s before the end of August. I’m off to rhyme now.
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Oh, it make accidentally a WHOLE bottle aswell!
Bet that’s just speculation.
lol
August 26th, 2008 at 8:45 am
or they could be just doing a mass defragging, followed by some serious ctrl+alt+del,followed by “This had better work”,followed by a mass worldwide sigh as everything is ready to go again, followed by “oh wait….thats not right”, followed by techies running around in mad panic as the servers wont reboot and seem to have wiped everyone stats away in all the online games giving people like me a chance to get some ‘Im gonna get even time’ with some o those hardcore warhawkers, nd so and so forth.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I think they’re having a closed server party to celebrate not being beheaded by rabid ThreeSpeechers at Leipzig next week. That or they’re taking eyepet out for a virtual walk in the PSN park.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Black and shiny, the PS3 represents the Emo lifestyle so it has to go to its room and cry for a few hours because its parents just don’t understand it.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I’m guessing that it’s just a new start-up screen, so when you turn your Playstation on it just plays the song “Homeward Bound” by Simon and Garfunkle. Just to keep us busy until Home comes out on the PS4.
Oh, and general inproved stability for playstation titles, of course.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am
The server is down as they need to replace the hamsters in wheels that run it!!!
August 26th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I’ve just read that a friend of mine who ‘knows someone’ who looks right and has seen ’something’ will tell you, for five English pounds, that she is pretty sure that they are converting your PS3 into an ATM this afternoon and that special and beautiful ‘Leipzig’ dollars will flow endlessly from that little slot that you put Blu Ray porn into…
But of course, I could be wrong…
August 26th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I have a theory. Last time the beta invites were sent out, there was downtime on the tuesday, so i’m guessing that this thursday, more beta invites are being sent out - maybe they are upgrading the servers to cope with the extra amount of people?
I don’t think its related to life with playstation because it’s a seperate app, and not linked to psn?
Anyways, whatever happens, lets hope its something.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
HOME WILL COME!!!!!!!. This down time is for Home to be released on to the servers.
(now that IS a silly answer)
August 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
The PSN is down because a special HOME taster demo will be released, but for only 5 hours at 4pm. So to stop there servers crashing, and the whole internet imploding. They will take down the servers until the bonus HOME experience is over..
August 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Stabbings and rain?
August 26th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Right, I’ve just been on the phone to my local sources and it looks like there’s nothing to get excited about.
Jim from accounting had another premonition the other day that the new intern, Norbert (Norb to his mates), will trip over the power supply to the main PSN server (called Big ‘n’ Beefy) leaving only the veggie options to cope with the massive demand. Veggie ‘n’ Lite and Vegan ‘n’ Wussy won’t be able sustain the meat of the PSN resulting in down time.
Hope this clears things up.
Jim’s never been wrong so I’d get all your meat based online goodness stocked up to the hilt before Norb takes a little ‘trip’.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:11 am
At least quote the sources of your “word” (like I did)…
[ http://threespeech.com/blog/2008/08/heads-up-exclusive-resistance-2-video-on-eurogamer-at-5pm-gmt/ ]
#14 “Comment by fanpages — Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:09 am”
BFN,
fp.
nofi Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Fixed, apologies.
fanpages Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Thanks.
PS. I didn’t think my comment had been submitted as your site never responded after clicking [Submit Comment].
Also, something odd is going on with the Cascading Style Sheets. The comments on a white background are displayed in white text… so you cannot read them until you highlight the block of text.
BFN,
fp.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:39 am
What about a new look for the PS Store. I think they should match it with the new TSA website.
And while there at it get rid of the stupid “tings” that you hear every time i select a category I want to look into.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
psn will be down for 5 hours to make it look like SCEE are actually working on something. they’re not. theres just 2 guys in a room with a big red switch watching Top Gear repeats on ‘Dave’. after 5 hours they flick the switch back on. another hard day at the office…
did i win a prize? no? oh well..
August 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
PPL are getting iso’s to boot its lock down time, so the guards can fix the holes in the fence.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
What’s a PSN?
Is it like an i-Phone?
Does it sell Tron on Laserdisc?
Did I break it?
Oh God, I did didn’t I?
August 26th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Can the prize be a new PS3?
Mine got the yellow light a couple of days ago, so I’m basically buggered. lol
August 26th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
My Dads wives brother works for Sony, and he just told me it’s Sony Germany instigating the downtime because Hasselhoff’s got himself stuck in the PSN server farm while trying to implement his homebrew Guitar Hero track-pack.
nofi Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
We don’t hear enough of Hasselhoff these days. I wonder what he’s up to.
Apart from getting stuck in the PSN server farm, I mean.
DJ Judas Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Probably working on something tremendous
My serious guess as to what the downtime is though is probably an upgrade ready for tomorrows Warhawk patch.
We can live in hope it’ll be for something special though
nofi Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Tremendous is a great word. It’s very fitting too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ot_katYYiU
The guy is a legend.
DJ Judas Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Haha indeed, I never did manage to figure out how/why that level of awesome managed to hit 3 different TV stars at about the same time (Hoff, Norris and T).
Possibly they were born that way, possibly it was the internet, possibly it was the 80’s!
Pixl1983 Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
The Tri force of the 80s!
August 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
i’ve got a very funny feeling that the reason the servers are going down is because…they are working on somthing!
i realise it’s a shot in the dark, but one can dream eh??
August 26th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Damn you PSN, my mrs is away with work tonight, time to Uncharted I think
August 26th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
‘Xbots’ raided the server room when they feared XBL now had competition.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Well im still online, it must be a case of if you come off, you cant get back on.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I’m back on &, errr, there’s some broken images on the playstation store & errr, that’s it. Not really worth the wait…….
August 26th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Yeah, I signed in half an hour or so ago.
I think I know what the downtime was for; there was none! Sony have, in their recent times of disappointing people, decided to at least enjoy messing with everyone’s heads. So they announced downtime - when there wasn’t going to be any. So we’re all guessing at what it could bring whilst they’re laughing their asses off and drinking expensive wine, secure in the knowledge that they can mess with us as much as they want to.
micky Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
There was downtime mate, I coudn’t get on the store or sign in for about 3 hours.
Gamoc Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
That’s strange. Well, at least it didn’t invonvenience me
August 26th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Back up early, good old Sony
August 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Well I have been testing Home for over one year now and downloaded the open Home on the 16th. They was a small 16 meg update file I installed last nite with seeing nothing special going on. Home is not the reason the PSN was down.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
So…. who wins?
August 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Good point. I’ll ask Michael.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
We have a winner: Bearskopff. Email us your contact details, mate and nofi will send you something A-MA-ZING!
Honorary mention to DJ Judas for sublime use of The Hoff.