The last we heard from Sony is that the PlayStation Store would be back “by the end of the week”, which more than a couple of people took to mean “next week sometime”. But a posting from a Minis developer may have revealed that the Store is indeed set to return this Friday.
“Block Cascade Fusion is coming as Minis for PS3 and PSP to North America on 3rd June 2011!” wrote Gamelion on their Facebook page a couple of hours ago. The Friday date suggests that it may be one of the games released in the first post-hack Store publish.
Of course, even if that statement turns out to be correct, there’s no confirmation that the European and American Stores will be reactivated at the same time – although we’d hope so.
The Network maintenance (that noted the Store would be unavailable) rescheduled from earlier in the week is now due to take place tonight, with an estimated completion time of 7am tomorrow. Perhaps the Store will be back tomorrow, with the first publish on Friday, including Block Cascade Fusion? Maybe it’ll be back tomorrow, with new content, and the aforementioned Mini in the second content push? Or even just reactivated on Friday, loaded with new goodies?
Really, we don’t know yet, and we likely won’t until after tonight’s maintenance, but we know you’re all eagerly waiting for the Store’s return so thought we’d pass the message on.
X201
Sony can take as long as they like as far as I’m concerned.
My cable modem went faulty last night, so I’m now waiting for a new one to arrive :-/
BIGAL-1992
I’m not really bothered when it’s back, as long as it’s up and running when it’s ready.
yogh_wayne
I hope Outland will be in the first batch of new store content :)
jonny_bolton
Oh god, yes please. I almost bought it on my 360 today because I don’t want to wait and 4200 free points dropped through my letterbox.
ruinereraser
Which Friday? ;)
3shirts
Come, they have narrowed it down to 14% of the-rest-of-time. Give them a break ;)
X201
If it is a Friday update, it’ll be like the good old days of when it first started.
archangel27
Truthfully, I’ve lost all faith (and respect) for Sony. If you remember correctly, all services were supposed to be restored by the 31st of May. I understand it takes time to test and create a new infrastructure, but there hasn’t been one deadline that Sony has met.
X201
They weren’t supposed to be restored.
When the problems started, Sony said they were “aiming” to have everything back up by the end of May. They didn’t say “everything WILL be working by May 31st”
They also released an update last week which everyone seems to have missed, where they stated that they were still aiming for the 31st but if the missed that it would only be by a day or so.
Klart
It’s been two days. And it’s looking like it’s gonna be more.
No matter how you look at it, SONY has been terrible in handling this outage.
Reality Check
I never take notice of things that say ‘?’ in the title! LoL
AdmiringWorm
I really hope this is true, I want to try out the pre-order bonus I got with l.a noir
gazzagb
Well, Sony have already failed saying it would be up by end of May, so I’m still willing to be it won’t be til next week before we see any Store Updates.
hazelam
i haven’t had any new comics for over a month, that’s simply intolerable. >:(
the store better be back soon o_O