PSN Down For “Emergency” Maintenance

Community moderator Yaster has posted on the Official EU Forums that the PlayStation Network will go down tonight for “emergency maintenance”.  The downtime will start at 5pm BST and run through until 9pm BST.

“For the first 45 minutes of this maintenance,” he says, “you’ll be unable to access the PS Store, Account Management or Registration pages. If you attempt to access these pages you’ll receive a maintenance notification.”

“You may, however, be able to sign-in to PSN (assuming you have done so previously on the PS3/PSP you’re using) and play online titles,” he confirmed.

When asked what the emergency was by a member of the forums, Yaster replied; “Can’t really say to be honest. Mainly because I don’t know myself what’s going on with it.”

Sounds like whatever’s going on needs to be fixed pretty quickly.