Sony's PlayStation Network suffers big outage

The good news is that Sony has more than 70 million registered users for its PlayStation Network online service for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. The bad news is that they’re all angry because Sony suffered an outage today.

Sony is still investigating what’s wrong, but it predicted the service would likely take a day or two to bring back up. The outage comes on the same day that Amazon’s cloud-based web services business went down, taking lots of Web 2.0 businesses down too. It shows another hazard of operating cloud-based services.

The PlayStation Network, or PSN, is Sony’s attempt to engage its video-game console and PlayStation Portable audience in a larger online entertainment network that includes online games, movies and TV shows, as well as Sony exclusives such as Qore, a digital magazine, and The Tester original TV show. It’s a strategic asset for the console maker as more of the-video game audience moves into the online world.

On its blog, Sony said, “While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.”

There are 948 games now available in the PlayStation Network store, as well as 4,000 pieces of add-on content for games. There are also 31,000 movies and TV shows available for download, not counting the content available on Netflix, Hulu, and sports content.

Just yesterday, Sony announced that it would launch its PlayStation Home service update for users who visit its gamer’s virtual world on the PlayStation Network. It’s not clear if that update was the cause of the crash.

  • chriscruz93722

    thats what sony gets! GEOHOT is after them!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QZKY5BWNNR4T4MQYZJUFHN4NV4 JAFDA Just Another Fing Disgru

    fuckin bullshit! I suppose its maintenence right psn? lyin sack of shits!!! And stop making netflix working rely on signing into psn scumbags!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://profiles.google.com/ellisbrianc Brian Ellis

    my netflix is still working, just keep hitting ok for sign in and then once your netflix loads in the background, hit back…. and now netflix works fine.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JW5XH3EXFOJB23EZVF2F5ET6HQ Raymond

    This shit sucks dude.. I'm an avid user (primarily Call of Duty games) and i was disappointed rather early yesterday morning to learn that there was a network failure.. At first I thought it was my internet connection so I ran the internet connection test a few times and noticed that it was the playstation network that was failing but i kept trying and assumed it was my connection. This has barely happened in the past and besides i just purchased a new PS3 because my old one was actin' up so i called the Sony technical support line and the “machine” lady explained there was a network outage. I was relieved in the sense that it wasn't my PS3 or internet connection causing the problem. My point is.. There is no doubt I love Sony and it's products and I'm loyal to them but I expect the same in return. Hopefully this inconvenience is taken care of ASAP..

  • http://twitter.com/S_Frogh Soto Tefanio

    1 or 2 days, its been 3 days now?

  • ToothDetector

    Get a LIFE people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RB45UJWM5U76DOH2FIMZB4HT2Q francisco

    get a life?…wat the hell are u doing looking this up if u got a life huh?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RB45UJWM5U76DOH2FIMZB4HT2Q francisco

    ….its been 3 days SONY…..3 DAYS!!!

  • http://profiles.google.com/lanphier1999 L. Blake Tucker

    You losers are twisted. Ur car breaks down and you take it to somebody that says he can have it up and running in 2 days. while he working on it he notices its gonna be longer due to extra work and needs more time, are you gonna sit here and bitch at him cuz your car fucked up? your pipes busted water damage all over the house you didnt want to pay the cost to get a professional to come out and fix it so you doing it your self and your wife is bitching about unessacery crap telling you to hurry up while you tryin to do the best you can, are you gonna speed up process to just get the work done half ass cuz your wife is bitchin or make sure its fixed the right way?if you said that you gonna bitch about not fixing ur car in 2 days and get shit done half ass then yes my friend you are a dumb fuck. you loser now provoked the right to bitch about a resturant getting the food you order wrong cause they got the right to bitch at you cause they got it wrong. it is senceless to sit here and bitch about something we cant do nothing about because some ass decided to hack the system sending everybody offline. did you stop to realized that the dumbass didnt think about you when he hack into the network?? they doing the best they can a detective cant solve a murder case in 3 hours but he/she is doing all they can so just be patient and quit bitching. pull your panties g-string thongs gurtles out ya ass and stfu.

  • http://profiles.google.com/avpr1a Ruthless Genes

    This is bull$hit! It's 4/30/11 and Playstation network is still down. The sign in screen says its “maintenance.” Fuck you PSN. And Fuck cloud networks. And DMV.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D5EMRE5BWULXWWQFOY7IOFJRBY ray

    Netflix just stopped working this morning now i'm thinking about throwing my ps3 out the window.

  • cybersoldier

    I am a Phony gay station owner. I meant a Sony play station owner and I don’t care what you fan boys got to say or get pissed off at what I got to say. Sony is full of shit it’s just a big fat conspiracy to force people to pay for the psn .Sony being out for over four years and baily reaching 60 exclusives tittles on their system if sony wasn’t too busy worrying about hackers moding there systems and more focused on their customers’ needs they wouldn’t be in this situation that they in right now .for instance last year April 1 …April fools day sony got a real kick out of removing linix and the other os from our consoles…. not your consoles …well this time the joke is on you and trust me it’s funny and for the ones that don’t think it’s funny we laughing for you .The year the Hackers took over is Sony’s greatest fear .and for all the sony ass kisser’s out their stop crying over the psn and get off your fat asses and do something constructive with your life the world don’t revolve around the PHONY Gay Station LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZM7W3X7OL26OIVY34TWZDYODZA Alex Najera

    doesnt anybody remember when there was this thing called a gameboy advance and everyone would stay up late using it oh yea and wat about the playstation 2 duhhh

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