Update:Â The official accounts of PlayStation are now stating that network capabilities are being restored to the entire network, so you should in theory be able to sign in on all your capable PlayStation devices.
Network connectivity is being restored to the rest of the network. Thanks for your patience again.
— PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) August 26, 2014
Original Story:
If, like me, you’ve been trying to access the PlayStation Network this afternoon then you may have been greeted with the message that it was undergoing maintenance. However, this is not the case but instead PSN is down for an as of yet unknown reason, and Sony are trying to resolve the issues as quickly as possible
Network update: engineers are aware of connectivity issues, are working to resolve. We’ll keep you posted – apologies for the inconvenience
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 26, 2014
This outage comes just a couple of days after the service suffered a large scale DDoS attack which saw PSN being down for the majority of Sunday. It’s unclear whether this is another such attack or if this is a case of something going wrong at the source. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more.
Source: PlayStation Twitter
doomsday619
Just got myself Plants Vs Zombies and cant play it :(
Pixel_nme
Yep i was going to have a few games of that great game,instead rallying around the German countryside in WRC4 on PS3.
doomsday619
Is it any good? Was looking forward to trying it out didn’t realise it was an only online game.
Pixel_nme
I really enjoy it good fun game hell i must like it I’ve had it twice :D had it on Xbox One but got rid of it for the PS4 version,hope you enjoy it when you finally get to try it i think you will.
Tuffcub
Start baking!!
Pixel_nme
Just to let people know even though the PS4 isn’t signing into the network the PS3 is working just fine,the Vita is also working just fine so seems to just be PS4 at the moment,anyone know what the PS3 update that auto downloaded last night does my guess just the odd tinker/stability.
doomsday619
“a minor optional update that improves stability during the use of some features”. Thats what i have read.
Pixel_nme
Cheers didn’t think it would be anything major as there was no word of it on here.
Matthijs
Seems to be working fine again from here (nld)
Pixel_nme
Yep it does indeed seem to have been resuscitated :)
Bilbo_bobbins
should this sort of stuff happen after we all now have to pay for P+ to play online? Has this ever happened to Microsoft network? I honestly don’t know.
Forrest_01
Whilst I share your viewpoint on the fact that we now effectively pay for online, this did come a couple of days after a DDoS attack on PSN, so I suspect its to be expected somewhat.
Plus it was in the afternoon when people are supposed to be at work, so much better than their usual maintenance periods! ;)