PSN Down, Sony Investigating

Tuffcub 47 Comments

It comes as no surprise that the PSN has buckled under the numbers of new PlayStation 4’s going online and is currently “undergoing maintenance”.

Frankly I’m kicking myself for not nipping down the bookies and putting twenty quid on this happening.

Also – and I do not want to cause a panic, this is just an observation – I know three people who have got borked PS4s, Teflon and 3 Shirts from TSA lucked out, as did my friend Anis. That does seem a rather high number.

We shall let you know when the PSN is back, assuming the staff can be ripped away from their shiny new boxes.

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47 Comments

  1. Got mine at the Midnight opening of Game Hemel Hempstead, must have been a hundred or so there last night. I haven’t been able to log in to PSN all day either, to be expected I suppose but even so Sony should have made better provision with the servers. btw never having seen a to scale picture of the PS4 camera before today I was shocked at how small it was when I opened the box.

  2. I guess this is why Yoshida never answered me on twitter when I asked if the psn servers would be upgraded.

    • I’m pretty sure I saw in a few places that even with its extra 300.000 servers Microsoft had issues day one,and that’s there area of expertise.

      • Xbox live had sign-in issues for about 10 minutes.

      • 10 minutes … over 17 hours … who’s counting?
        http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/26/xbox-one-online-still-down-as-uk-tv-problems-persist-4202470/

        Not like you to downplay XBox and overstate Playstation issues though, is it?

      • Well that’s clearly incorrect as I arrived home from midnight launch and setup my brothers X1 and signed in immediately with no problems. And Metro is known for exaggerating gaming stories. Its not reliable at all.

        But anyway, what’s the status of live got to do with psn having problems?

  3. What was the issue with the broken ps4s? Hdmi slot? Updating mine as I type. It. Is. Sexy.

  4. Just got online but after I started setting up my account I got kicked.
    Lets see if I can get back on

  5. IM IN :) Picked mine up earlier swapped out the hard drive couldn’t sign in so just installed my games,now I’m signed in gotta say what a lovely piece of kit and the DS4 is bloody fantastic chuffed :)

    • Picked mine up midday without so much as a preorder – just reserved it from Argos this morning :-) HDD swapped and all updated without a hitch, but I’m only just able to logon to PSN now. Downloading Resogun as I type… The Ghosts PS3-PS4 upgrade was a farce. Wouldn’t let me redeem codes on the machine but went to the store on the PC and did it then queued up the downloads no problem.
      Gotta say, I love the hardware and the new OS. Especially impressed with the DS4 and how it feels in my hand. Impressed so far :-)

      • Yeah I’m really impressed with the experience so far the OS pee’s all over the PS3 one :)

      • The OS is fantastic, so much more responsive and less cluttered. Enjoying just playing with it and finding out all the nifty things it can do :-)
        Got 3 years insurance though just to be on the safe side – £50 is much easier to find now than finding £300 to replace the machine if it goes tits up in 13 months time!

      • Oh yes im covered better to be safe than sorry,but never really had any troubles when it came to the PS3 so fingers crossed alls fine this generation :)

  6. Updated and set up my PS4 at around half past three this afternoon, finally managed to get signed into PSN about 20 minutes ago.

  7. Sorry to hear about the borked units, all seems ok here so far – touch wood. I had no problem last night but i did have issues signing in today and put it down to psn being overloaded.

    Several downloads failed on me overnight, mananaged to grab them ok this morning but for Escape Plan, which kept giving an error. I’ll wait til everything calms down and try again.

  8. Lol, i tried to post a comment a minute ago and i got a ” resource limit reached ” for tsa. :)
    But yeah, psn was fine last night but i woke up to 3 corrupted downloads. Deleted and redownloaded 2 of them ok but Escape Plan keeps giving an error when i try to download it. I can sign in but it takes a while so i might wait and try later.
    Sorry to hear about the borked units, hope they can be exchanged swiftly.

    • Oops, thought my 1st comment had disappeared into the ether.

  9. Got mine at midnight last night, all is well, updated it got my free games and have been able to log in since. I havent tried to access the store though, so that may not actually work. A few of my friends also got theres last night and they all work.

  10. I’m on now but I can’t download anything at all, just getting the loading bars. Still, after six hours of trying this is definitely progress!

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