Sony have announced a new period of PSN maintenance that will occur from Wednesday 25th September from 15:00 until Thursday 26th September 03:00 BST.
Yep, that’s slap bang in the middle of when the PSN store is usually updated, and also the time when this month’s PlayStation Plus content is rotated out and replaced by Far Cry 3, Street Fighter X Tekken and chums.
For the duration of the maintenance you will be unable to log into the PlayStation Network, Account Management and the PS Store. PS Home will also be unavailable. Sony also say there may be some additional downtime after the maintenance period for testing purposes.
As you are probably aware the downtime is organised by Sony Japan and it’s usually scheduled to provide minimum disruption for that market. This is seems like an increasingly bad idea when Sony’s main stronghold is now Europe, they really should be scheduling things around us, not Japan.
Source: Sony
Scythegpd
Cross game chat?
Sorry, someone has to …
hazelam
honestly, i think i’d miss these if nobody did them. ^_^
Bilbo_bobbins
Thanks for the info, I think you need to change the 15th Sep to 25th though?
Tuffcub
Hmm, the actual post on Sony says 15th – 26th. So I’m blaming them :)
hol
Are they on drugs or something? Surely they can stagger it better? Always seems to be the EU region that gets this at prime gaming time! Grrrr :(
hazelam
is this payback for Europe getting the PS4 first?
think scee will get the store update out before 3pm?
me either. o_O
Amphlett
I noticed that you mentioned PS Home will be unavailable during the maintenance period. Is PS Home still up and running? Are Sony actually making a profit on that thing?
Tuffcub
Yes.
KeRaSh
Does this affect online play? Would suck if I couldn’t play FFXIV. :P
ron_mcphatty
At least it’s gonna be Wednesday and not the weekend. I can see us getting a few long maintenance outages before the PS4 comes out, hopefully that’ll make for a silly smooth launch for all the new online features!
Starman
About time they upgraded those creaking old psn servers.
Nixy
I’m assuming this will be a thing of the past when we’re paying for online services for PS4? Or will they be issuing refunds for time paid for but unable to be redeemed?
pdannysan13
Probably to smooth out some problems for those who downloaded GTA V through PSN.