Sony Gives Update on Why PSN Has Gone Down Again

PlayStation Network users have been experiencing the PS3′s online service go down yet again just recently. Users from Europe as well as North America have stated they are still seeing the PlayStation Network is down for maintenance message. Sony has now given an official update regarding the message.

[Hellsvacancy]

“Please bear with us as we continue working on PSN restoration. We are experiencing extremely heavy traffic.” No sh!t Sherlock

[iamnsuperman]

Kinda expected really.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Too much PSN love LOL

It's hard to contain ourselves from not signing in all at once the moment we heard it was back on :P

[Foliage]

I have just connected with 7 Reference Kits, and 1 Test Kit. It is up on the developer end at least, up here in Canada.

I wonder if these users changed their passwords?

For development purposes, I just created whole new users and PSN accounts.

[Anon1974]

Yeah, I'm in Canada too. I got in fine last night, also no problems this morning.

[Welshy]

im in the UK, signed it perfectly at first, but ended up "under maintenance" again for a couple of hours there, and now its back again lol

to be expected i guess, the just rebuilt the entire system and literally the entire world is trying to get onto a brand new server almost simultaneously.

it'll come with time, should be back in full swing by the end of the week hopefully =)

[Max_Dissatisfaction]

Literally huh? The whole world you say?

[Rage_S90]

^^ Ted is that you?

[Redgehammer]

Umm, maybe He meant literally in the figurative sense, or better yet; Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

[Scyrus]

I love sicilian pizza!

[Truth]

@Redgehammer

Pulling some lines from Princess Bride? Very niiiice.

[Aarix]

Your if going to say "literally the entire world" there better be a 6 billion count on there.

[paintsville]

Down again. Meh. Not surprised.

[PS3n360]

Clearly I can not choose the wine in front of me.

[monkey nuts]

Inconceiveable!!!!!!!!

[LOGICWINS]

Funny, mine never went down.

[norman29]

Same here, signed out and back in again and still working fine.

[Dee_91]

mine just did
and itl probable be going down for more of you

[Guard719]

Same. I jammed to several hours on HomeFront last night and signed in the morning on the East Coast. All is fine.

[trounbyfire]

people can't wait and already sony dead articles again

[LOGICWINS]

Whats wrong with reporting news? Apparently, it went down for some people..so y can't we talk about it?

[Soldierone]

Because its server traffic causing it to stutter at times...its nothing more. Sites are making it out to be like the PSN was hacked and wont be back up for weeks. We don't need ten articles "PSN IS DOWNS AGAIN OH NOES!!!!" We need one simple headline "PSN Traffic Causes Outages" Done.

Remember MW2? Did the same thing, was fine within a day. Its simply servers jumping back online and processing information correctly. Once people stop requesting password changes, that portion of the servers can work on keeping people online instead.

[LOGICWINS]

^^You sir, are a paranoid fellow.

"Bu bu bu dey cantz say nuthin badz abouts mah TREY!"
Grow up dude.

[Treyb3yond]

Logicwins?

Shut up.

[solidjun5]

Do you look at yourself in the mirror deadreckoning666? Cause you're the one acting like a kid. Grow up.

[rezzah]

@solid

Logic is Dead?

[solidjun5]

@rezzah: Yea it's him. I first recognized him in the way he writes. Then he implicated himself when he lied and told me to stop PMing him. First of all, I never did; especially to his LOGICWINS name; and second of all, I have a electronic trail of him PMing me as deadreckoning666. I never initiated a message to him. When you read the messages, it's easy to see it's him. Same style in terms of of writing.

[fatalred alarm]

When the xbox experienced heavy traffic everyone was screaming doom to.. and that was only heavy traffic, not included the 3 week outage.

[jerethdagryphon]

its entirly my fault i synced my 200 trophys and it died :(

[LOGICWINS]

Pff..its all ur fault man ;)

[ikkeweer]

On how many accounts did you update your Hannah Montana trophies?, damnit

[jerethdagryphon]

no hanah montana trophys :) sly 2 /3 venetica knights conract and all the simgle player on motorstorm apocolypse and portal 2

[ikkeweer]

OK, I'm partialy impressed by, and partialy sad for you.
Doubt they were jumping up and down at Sony-headquarters because of your trophies though, lol

@PlayStationEU
PlayStation Blog EU
#PSN services have also been restored in the rest of Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and South America.
Let's see

YES, back to KZ3

[jerethdagryphon]

also how can people disagree with the trophys check my sig in forum or my profile on ps3trophys.com

[ikkeweer]

why can't there just be one article linked to their twitter accounts: http://twitter.com/#!/PlayS...
http://twitter.com/#!/steve...
don't know the us one

[Silly Mammo]

Just play 60 minutes of KZ3!!

[dragunrising]

I anticipated heavy traffic so I simply downloaded the new firmware and changed my password. The demand to game online is great enough so that everyone and their mom is jumping online. In a couple of days the congestion should go away.

[frostypants]

Ditto. I pulled BFBC2 out, but then came to the same conclusion you did and thought better of it. I'll jump online after everyone else has had their turn.

[solidjun5]

"No sh!t Sherlock"

Exactly. Mines went down for like 20 minutes as I continued to play Deadspace 2. No biggie. Heavy traffic. I didn't expect another 24 days. ^_^

[jke82]

back up in toledo oh as of 100am 5/16

[frostypants]

Everyone saw this coming. People are going to slam the servers much harder than they'd ever normally get hit, just out of anticipation for them coming back online after the hiatus. Not much Sony can do about it other than try to balance out the loads. They could have paid for additional capacity, but it wouldn't have made much sense given that this sort of activity is generally temporary.

[XxDarkGamerxX]

Its back up again according to some tweets

[Danielmccue]

Yeah its back up, store still doesnt work though where i am (the UK)

[Dart89]

The store ain't up anywhere that will probably come back during the week.

[limewax]

Pretty much all I am waiting for now really, just want my 2 free games

[LOGICWINS]

Infamous and Warhawk :)

[limewax]

Hope so, I have Infamous, but Warhawk is one I missed, Starhawk is one I will not, A chance to play it would be good but with Starhawk announced I don't feel its worth buying now, Not because of its quality, because of timing

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

Im happy with anything for free, especially PS1 classics.

But giving warhawk like you said would be really smart for sony. It might get more people into the series for the new one. Id love to try that.

[mastiffchild]

Yeah, I'm kinda relieved I'm not part of the hokey cokey(you turn the PSN on, the PSN off, on, off, on off...)of that amounts to tonight's open PSN beta in a way. My router's died and left me with only an old modem thing but going back on only to have to muck about with my passwords(email account issues and kids changing passwords means I think I might end up having to call Sony-and I've got a couple of old systems that have left me and I didn't deactivate)and THEN have the typical first night online issues would be too much after this wait!

It's true that it's probably teething problems and unavoidable but, you know, it's still going to scare a lot of people who don't appreciate things like this and a lot won't ever have experienced a beta so it might be a worry for them.

[newn4gguy]

Type in the new password.

Type it again to verify.

What's so hard about that?

[n4gisatroll]

You don't need the original ps3, I think the account has to be the master account. Go on quoricity.com and check your account details. It shows which ps3s has your account on them, and you can deactivate certain ps3s.

[mastiffchild]

No, as I hadn't installed the update I didn't know if they were going to assk me to o it by email hence THAN my dead email would have been an issue AND if the two other accounts aren't set up to sign in automatically I'll be NORMALLY screwed cos my kids, who changed them, won't know what to so all I could hoe there is that they didn't change the email accounts too.

Was less about Sony and more about procedure/things that would have screwed me normally anyway. Should have been clearer but the main thing is I would have left it anyway as i didn't want to end up waiting for an answer from Sony when the'll be hugely busy.

If it's just lewtting most people do it on their PS3 I shouldn't have an issue with my main account and THEN I can change the email but as some people were saying they were waiting FOR emails I was concerned.Sheesh.

[SpaceSquirrel]

I kind of expected to happen due to a lot of people trying to log back in

[rob6021]

That is likely, but it's also possible some of those 'Anonymous' followers are DDoSing Sony's servers to try to take them down. Taking Sony's servers down for a few minutes to an hour is as far as they ever got before someone actually broke in.

[Thrungus]

To be fair I didn't expect it to stay 'up'.

[Urrakia34]

That's what she said.

[diehardgamer1000]

lmfaooooo!!!!

[limewax]

Never heard of heavy traffic overloading servers?

[beavis4play]

heh,heh.....heh,heh,heh....... .you said "up"......heh,heh... .heh,heh,heh....

[InLaLaLand]

Lol I see what you did there.

[nitrogav]

Yeah back on :-)

[Infamous2]

Up in Toronto.

[MaximusPrime]

its back up here in UK

[pody]

@PlayStationEU
The UK, Ireland and the Middle East are all now back online. Other countries to follow soon #PSN

Updated 8 minutes ago.

"...follow soon", guys! I know what will make me remember the PSN Outage 2011 atleast! :P

[jay2]

I'm actually ready to go and buy some games I've got on PS3 on 360........ 3 Fing weeks and you can only bring it back for about the same hrs? I've got till December on XBL so might just use that instead.

[Silly gameAr]

You do that.

[newn4gguy]

Yeah...just play Live. We'll be fine without you.

[Darkspade]

“Please bear with us as we continue working on #PSN restoration. We are experiencing extremely heavy traffic.”

There is no more traffic then they had? Should the the same maybe less

[Bell Boy]

or maybe everyone is rushing to play online again..so not displaying their normal gaming habits

just saying!

[Barajas_201]

well at least i got to sync my trophies, activated my system, and change my email, and started my black ops profile

[Koelbox]

Just like an MMO launch this is :D
Woohoo we can play! ooow sh*t here starts the lagg! Servers are down.

Was to be expected, time will sort this out.

[VonBraunschweigg]

MAG worked fine the last three hours, sure was fun to play again:) If I sign-in to PSN now it's the maintenance message again, but I'm off for zzZZzz's. Have fun y'all.

[blackburn10]

Everyone is crowding all at once on to the servers. Be patient.@ jay2 no one cares. Just do it and STFU.

[Killzone3___]

it works again in the middle east but my brother had to make a new account because the letter doesn't arrive to the email ..

[guigsy]

People should just be patient and give it a day or so rather than all trying to sign in the second they announce it's back up.

[Kee]

Well, at least they know.

[anti-gamer]

did some one notce that you can report your frind Message and send it to sony.

[Dart89]

Where you been man that was there before the psn went down.

[anti-gamer]

lol i didnt know that untell know, but thinks to tell me that.

[CtrlAltDel]

Perhaps maybe now you can understand fully what happened with xbl back in 2007 when y'all claim it was hacked and the entire network went down...when in fact it was an unexpected upsurge in user logons that caused sporadic connection issues for SOME users.

Perhaps not...this is N4G.

Here comes the phantoms...

[DragonKnight]

For 2 weeks? For A LOT of users? This is not the same thing. PSN is having intermittent logout issues randomly due to the traffic. Entire gaming websites reported on XBL being out for 2 weeks for them in 2007. Not intermittently, not randomly, fully for 2 weeks. That's not a simple traffic problem.

[CtrlAltDel]

"Entire gaming websites reported on XBL being out for 2 weeks for them in 2007. Not intermittently, not randomly, fully for 2 weeks."

Please post a link to verify your 'I-read-it-on-some-forum-s o -it-must-be-fact'.

Here, I'll start you off:

http://www.engadget.com/200...

Again, link where it states XBL was OFF (not intermittently but OFF like PSN for 1 or more weeks - 2 weeks according to you)!

And please link where this issue was caused by hackers...or that MS purposefully shut the network down because it was hacked!

Otherwise STFU.

[DragonKnight]

@TheButtHurtFanboyAbove: Ouch, looks like I struck a nerve with you didn't I? You need to relax and remember that this is only video games, this isn't someone soiling your wife's honor or something else that requires a dueling glove.

Read your own link. 10 days = 2 business weeks. Thousands of users = That's what A LOT means.

Oh and uh, notice how no single site can actually come out and emphatically state that it was a traffic issue? MS said it was PART of the issue. So how can you say it wasn't hackers when MS themselves never fully stated the whole issue?

Face it, Live was down for 2 weeks for thousands possibly millions of users (Zune as well) and MS never came forward with the whole truth. They simply blamed it on high traffic and you all ate it up as truth.

http://www.internetnews.com...

There was even a lawsuit scheduled for this outage. You want the link to that too? Sounds pretty similar to the PSN outage.

[CtrlAltDel]

"@TheButtHurtFanboyAbove& quot;

Sure sign of touching someone's nerve: Rspond by name calling.

You didn't answer NOTHING.

1. No link/qoute where XBL was OFF for 2 weeks.

2. No link/qoute where the sporadic connection issue which DID NOT affect ALL users WORLDWIDE was due to hackers/MS shutting down XBL.

3. No link/qoute that MILLIONS - 77+ millions accounts had been compromised.

All you are talking is hot air no more/no less.

BTW what am I a fanboy of? My Dual ATI 6950 3 monitor Crossfire Eyefinity PC? My xbox 360? My PS3 & PSP? My kids' DSi XLs? Which one?

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Is back again =).

[Dante112]

Philly, up and running.

Edit: Nvm, is this only for EU, Middle East, UK?

[gemc666]

is back up (Venezuela here)

[thespaz]

No problems here. USA East Coast.

[MasterCornholio]

I just hope its because everyone is trying to get on at once. Because if its Anon i will murder them.

Anyways theres bound to be a few issues the first few days. But after that it should be fine.

[dork0783]

@ CrackHeadGamer Why do you miss them?

[DonnieDarko]

Just kicked some ass in FIFA!!! Beautiful!!!!

[artsaber]

Lol, so many waiting for PSN to come back up. Now is a good time for a game dev to have their stuff ready for sale on PSN when it comes back up. Throw in a welcome back discount and get DOS'd via sales.

[Rikan]

Sad.

[coryok]

i signed on earlier, got off, and when i tried to sign back on i got an error message but didnt read it, it was probably this. i just clicked sign on again and it worked

[Undeadwolfy]

In UK and at the current time of writing this, 16/05/2011 00:20am, cannot sign into PSN. Says password needs to be changed then receive error code. UK PlayStation site is saying PSN is Offline and my PSN app on my phone wont even load the login screen.

Just wrote that as people are saying that its back up again for them after going down the second time.

Its obvious its to do with traffic. Oh well, time to wait a little longer then I guess. :(

http://i53.tinypic.com/s323...

[IHateYouFanboys]

this is hilarious - its EXACTLY what happened to xbox live in 2007/2008, yet youre all making excuses for sony while for the last month youve bagged the hell out of microsoft for it lol.

[Jack-H]

Who gives a crap what happened to the xbox. jeez i'm just glad i have my psn back. get over yourself bub

[saoco]

i was just playing kz3 and Bops. no outtage here in Pcola

[AliC]

Not been able to reset my password yet :(

[banjadude]

I logged into PSN at around 6:30 AM to see if it worked, and it did. Afterwards, I played Dungeon Hunter Alliance for about 4 hours straight and had no problems. Logged off, and logged back in around lunch time for another 3 hour session. Had no problems either...

[Grannyvukka]

So before I even got the chance to get back on again....it was taken off again due to large ammounts of traffic.....now if true, this does seem dumb on Sony's behalf, as they knew there were 75million accounts out there (so taking into account double up's), so around 50million master accounts lets say, for arguements sake........then this is something Sony should have been prepared for, the poor dumb bastards.
Oooooh, I'm soooo angry, I'm gonna trade my PS3 & close to 100 games in at gamestop for a 360 with Gears 2 package, & I'll only have to pay another $150 for the upgrade....ZOMG, what a deal.....

[TBONEJF]

PSN works fine here on the east coast. SO WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? The only thing not working is the PlayStation Store DUH

[DarkSpawnClone]

OMFG psn is down again for me ;/ EST.

it was working and now it's down again...ughhh.

[DizzyDino]

I can't sign in right now. It's down for maintenance again. I live in West Virginia.

[Sparticus_1]

I just thought about something..I had just put a 20 dollar psn card on my account a week before it went down..wonder if thats still going to be there....

[Liqvid]

I just signed in people \o/

(WA, USA)

[HINDERIZATION]

no wonder Killzone2 online was lagging for me yesterday XD

[richyque]

It is on in chicago

[2v1]

im online , playing socom4 now &!%(*$!

[earbus]

Be a while before its totally stable maybey.

[tigertron]

I was able to get on this morning.

[Hozi89]

So can we please talk about E3 now and less about PSN? When they fix it they fix it so why rush?

E3 is right around the corner. Here's what I'm most excited for.

FF Versus 13, I hope we get a new trailer with more Gameplay!
New Kojima Title for Sony.
More on NGP and more gameplay vids.
Another Price drop for PS3 or PSP. : )
TES: Skyrim gameplay/info
Uncharted 3 Footage.

[TheComedian]

wtf is this article talking about as we speak it has been up here in Greece non stop for the past 12 hours.

[SolidStoner]

I was able to use online for 5 hours, (before some 14 hours) and now its down again.. pity.. and its not saying maintenance, it gives DNS error this time. it might be high traffic...

[SolidStoner]

dont use AUTO SIGN IN button.. DONT.. if you sign in manually it works just fine.. I remember SONY did sayd about this.. lol.. sign in manually and it will work!!!!!

[SYNTAXeRror]

psn been fine in Canada (BC) since last saturday nite...playin skate 3 all day yesterday and about too

[TBONEJF]

Went online@ 10:35pm est time play for a few hours of Resistance, got kick out vot some error code message it says please do a connection test which i did play till i was dead tired@ 1am. No problems here.

[BrianC6234]

What a stupid title for this story. PSN didn't go down again. They're having problems because too many people are doing things all at once. That's normal for all networks. It will just take time for PSN to get back to normal.

[Jason143]

was same when cod servers tryed to come back no surprise

[itzcoo]

Lol I guess they need to change the date on those t-shirts.

[zeeshan810]

I updated to 3.61 and I still can't sign-in (Toronto, Canada). :(

[CanadianTurtle]

As much as I love the PS3...

wow. Just wow....I went all the way to borrow MvsC3 again for nothing.

[DavidBanner]

Borrowed to get your butt kicked by Cap,Hulk and Task.
LOL

[P_Bomb]

I'm in Canada too and have been fine since Sunday morning.