In what’s hopefully just a blip, it appears that for some, the PlayStation Network has gone back down for ‘maintenance’ again, with that message that we’ve all been used to seeing for weeks.
Earlier today the PSN stirred back into life, bolstered by a new firmware, and this evening here in the UK we were back in business, changing passwords and signing in online.
However, in the last half hour we’ve heard that many users are now getting messages that the PSN is down for maintenance, and are unable to sign in.
We’re assuming that, at this stage, this is all just a by-product of heavy traffic and everyone trying to reset and sign-in at the same time, and that in a short while it’ll iron itself out.
Sony’s Steve Reynolds has tweeted that he’s aware of the issue. “There is a problem with PSN in the latest countries we rolled out to (except UK, IRE & ME),” he said minutes ago.
“We’re dealing with it.”
dogthedog
7:00 am. I just logged in here in Cork,Ireland.Everything looks ok.Changing password and logging in was smooth and fast.
Moakesice
This is almost funny, i managed to get on and have a few games of MW2 last night, it was working like a dream
ron_mcphatty
It’s on now in Engerland, just did my update, no store, account settings works if anyone’s interested in using that.
boschbourne06
i’ve just read this from the sony blog which explained why it was down again
We’re currently experiencing an extremely heavy load of password resets, so we recently had to turn off services for approximately 30 minutes to clear the queue.
If you’ve requested your password reset, please give it a bit of time to reach your email.
Sad Panda
I requested an e-mail reset for a sub account I created to play portal 2 co-op at around 19:00 BST. Still no e-mail but I’m not surprised, they must have hundreds of thousands of requests already. The confirmation of a change of password for my main account took minutes but I’d imagine that’s automated.
Hannypoppie
I didn’t even realise it was back up again :’)
Am I a terrible person if I admit that I chuckled a bit reading the title? Because if I am, I don’t give a rat’s ass, for it’s still funny picturing all your ragefaces when you found out, ghehe.
scavenga
*like*
Bilbo_bobbins
this is odd, I was playing mine all last night online with others