PSN Down Again Tonight With PS4, PS3 & Vita Affected, Cause Unknown

Aran Suddi 48 Comments

Another day and another outage on the PlayStation Network, this time errors popping up on the PS4, PS3 and the Vita. The reason for the current downtime is unknown as Sony didn’t have any maintenance planned for tonight. Recently the service seems to be have getting worse, and that isn’t exactly great. Currently I’m checking the network issues across all three of the PlayStation devices with different error codes appearing on screen.

On PS4 the current error is CE-34861-2 which is the code for the connection to the server failing. On Vita I have the code NW-9744-4, which isn’t even showing up in the error code directory. The PS3  gives the message that the connection timed out.

Sony has updated the PSN status page with the following message.

PSN is currently offline, and we are hard at work to resume service. At this time an estimate as to when PSN will be online is unavailable; however, we will update this article as soon as there’s additional information. If you would like to receive a notice when PSN is fully restored, be sure to follow the official PlayStation Twitter account and our support Twitter account,@AskPlayStation.

We’ll keep you updated as the situation develops.

Source: PlayStation Support

UPDATE: Reports suggest that PSN is coming back online now, though Sony’s status page has still not quite caught up. Have you got back online?

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48 Comments

  1. Working fine here. Are you sure its not just your PSN accounts banned due to the stealing Minecraft TSA scandal?

    • I think it might be the Pix the Cat one, actually. Everyone’s trying to download it after we revealed the secrets.

    • The @AskPlaystation Twitter account has confirmed they are currently investigating network issues.

      • PS3 and PS4 both online just fine, no problems at all.

        I guess this microscope news is the latest fad… No time to verify facts, get the story up…

      • By online you mean…? I can sign in and sync/view trophies but can’t play online, access the store, or view my friends lists…

        Maybe it’s the same as maintenance – if you were online when it went down it keeps you on, somehow?

        My Twitter and Facebook timelines are awash with people complaining about it, there are definitely issues. Guess you’re one of the lucky ones.

      • I also don’t see why Sony themselves would the PSN is experience issues if all is well…?

      • Was online gaming and hsve my friends list. Not tried the store.

    • When I thought about this afterwards I have to agree with Blighty. It was wrong of TSA to promote this kind of behaviour. I often hear people preaching about how gamers can be mature and this was the opposite of that. But hey, free game, right?

      • It wasn’t exactly our finest moment, which is why we pulled it and proceeded to make fools of ourselves in a kind of apologetic fashion.

    • I phoned customers services to tell them what had happened with Minecraft last night and they said “they were aware of the problem” i also told them i had managed to get it for free and they laughed and said “good for you”.

      • It’s nothing to do with people getting banned, I’d put money on it – I never had chance to grab mine craft for free but I’m having issues with PSN. It could be something to do with a fix they implemented for the glitch, but it’s not a blanket ban.

        Besides, it wasn’t just TSA that reported it… It was everywhere, even Hot UK Deals :-)

  2. PSN works fine on my vita, I’m playing my free copy of Minecraft.

    Like I said on that article before it disappeared, it’s perfectly legal to ‘pirate’ software you’ve already paid for. And Mojang said to buyers of Minecraft alpha that their purchase gets them ALL future versions of the game.

    Besides, I’m not sure how exactly sony would differentiate between people who got wind and grabbed it for free and people who just innocently downloaded the trial and then got the full version for nothing

    • I can sign in to PSN on the PS3 and PS4 but my friends list isn’t populating, the store isn’t working etc etc

  3. This is becoming far too regular an occurrence now :-(

    • Me too,i can sign in on all 3 consoles but the friends list on the vita and ps4 are buggered and as you said “it’s becoming a regular occurrence now”.

  4. Sorry to moan, but this really is not good enough anymore. PSN is not a free service anymore, we’re paying. It’s unacceptable that it just keeps happening. An update and an apology was ok when it was free but not now.

    • Then I guess its time to direct your complaints to the idiots trying to DDOS PSN, or the press for its biased reporting (XBox live outage is also pretty frequent, rarely gets reported).

      • When it happens we report it. http://www.thesixthaxis.com/?s=xbox+live+down
        Last time was three days ago. LIVE outages are no where near in frequency when compared to PSN.

      • You reported it because i pulled you up on your inconsistency. Pfior to this, you (and other gaming sites) were turning a blimd eye to all xbox live outages, intentionally manipulating readers perceptions of uptime.

      • Why would a predominantly PlayStation site downplay Xbox Live downtime whilst pouncing on PSN downtime?

        Makes no sense… Surely it’d be the other way round?

  5. Psn been working normally here too. Even logged in and out a few times with no hiccup.

  6. OK on ps3 for me!
    haven’t tried my vita or ps4?

  7. TSA just needs a pre-written, standard article for this situation which you can just post every time psn goes down. It happens so regularly it’s ridiculous. It’d save you a lot of time Aran. All it really needs to say is “psn is down yet again. Sony don’t know why yet again. Sony can’t say when it’ll be back up again. Try logging on later”. Post that each time it goes down and use the time you’ve saved playing destiny. Oh wait, you can’t because without psn the game won’t even load!

  8. Been fine for me tonight, played MW2 without any more problems than usual.

  9. They need to rebrand psn to playstation notwork

    • Haha brilliant, that made me chuckle

    • El oh el

    • Very good:).

    • I just guffawed a mouthful of choccie biscuit into my brew.

      While this may sound gross, it tasted better. Like a snidey council estate cappuccino. A coughaccino.

      My friends list was also borked. Driveclub worked friends list didn’t. :(

  10. Can access the store on my vita but friends list times out and never connects.

    Re: Xbox live going down, as a frequent user I’d say its been down about 3 times this year, and only for a hour or so at the most.

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