PlayStation Network offline today for maintenance. Probably for Home

14 October 2008

Posted by:Ferry

According to Sony Computer Entertainment in America and Europe, the PlayStation 3′s online service PlayStation Network will be down today, Tuesday October 14th 2008, for approximately 5 hours.

* In America its starting today at 2:00PM EDT (11:00AM PDT) and ending at 7:00PM EDT (4:00PM PDT).
* In Europe its starting today at 20:00 BST (21:00 CEST) and ending tomorrow at 01:00 BST (02:00 CEST).

Sony’s actual “essential maintenance work” reason is currently unknown. But during this time the PlayStation Network is expected to install an update to the service. Which would coincide with their plans to allow users to get on the open beta for PlayStation Home later this year. With Home being a community-based service for the PlayStation Network, I imagine they would need to implement new PlayStation Network functionalities that will be added to the open beta for Home.

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Thanks for the heads up supadupagama. So I’m guessing we only get the 5 hours of ps home as well??
http://www.videogamesblogger.com supadupagama

Did you even read it all? If you’re in the Home beta already, then logically if the whole PlayStation Network is offline, then Home that uses that same online network is offline as well, not online.

Actually it seems more like you’re spamming your website link with a fake comment. If there’s no follow up reply by you today then I’ll delete your link.
Renze

Or it could be downtime to implement the PSP store on PSN for PSP firmware update 5.00.

Not everything is about Home.
hoggyboy

its 14 feb 09 i cant play online because of maintanence,how long does this last?