Thank you for your patience and encouragement over the last few weeks. As covered in the post from earlier today, you can now update the firmware on your PS3 and change your password. Kazuo Hirai just announced that we have begun the phased restoration by region of some of the services, starting with online multiplayer functionality.
Please note that these services will take a bit of time to be turned on and rolled out to the whole country. The process has begun and some states are being turned on now, so please be patient as we reach your city and state. We’ll be updating the map below as service comes online in individual states. It will take several hours to restore PSN throughout the entire country, so please keep checking back for the latest updates. In the meantime, now’s a great time to get your PS3’s firmware updated, which is required to get online.
Notice: If your state is illuminated but your service has not yet been restored, please be patient – it can take a little while for the servers to populate fully.
Until we get the comments functioning correctly, we’re putting all comments on hold. I’m sure Jitender would appreciate not having people put words in his mouth ^_^
In the meantime, we’ll keep updating the map, and those of you already back online – enjoy some games!
is only going to be down for couple minutes in every state
I think I was more frustrated over the past 3 hours trying to change my password then I have been over this last month
Off again?
How do we know what games are free? Someone reply
I was just able to reset my password on us.playstation.com. I’m able to login to us.playstation.com and blog.us.playstation.com to post this comment. Entered my new password on the PS3 but still not able to connect.
You guys, rock. Thank you, SONY for all your hard work. <3
Finally the Buhd has come back to PSN!!!!! Welcome back everyone.
Thanks Sony. I was patient. You took way to long of a time to finish.. In the end, you ended up coming and it made me feel awesome to have you back :D
severs were overflooded thats all…
back to uncharted 2 baby
@InsaneClownDr
Like me :3 I still remember my first psX, its was the small, very light weight version i owned. My dad even kept me home from school just so I could play with it. :)
R.I.P dad, you will always be remembered.
@maggy_pie3 Thanks man i’ll try that.
@2708 I am sure they will inform us on what we will get after the store is back up.
yay for sony! i really missed my PSN and i’m gonna celebrate its return by purchasing a $20 PSN card when the store comes back!
How long is the “ThankYou” program gonna last???
sony your my hero i love you SSSSSOOOO much o and josh { aka.juphilli} i hope i see you soon if you read this comment come see me when ever can k.k
Love me some PSN!!! I am very glad you guys took care of everything and are doing what you have to do for it not to happen again. Durring this down time, i was not really mad about the psn being down, I was more upset with some of the off the wall comments people were leaving. I, myself, am a DIE-HARD SONY FAN!!!
when is playstation store going to be up?
So I found it funny last night when psn cam back online this big baby messaged me & cussing like an uneducated bafoon crying about my posts on the blog. Lol it was pretty pathetic, I hope the man seeks help.
I wanna kno when the store will b back up
@aaartsygal stop asking for a lot, sony just gave us online back be happy
thanks sony!!!(:
The store will be back up May 31 supposedly (according to a Bloomberg article).
Happy waiting!
Thanks Sony, Appearently this outage has helped me become a better player online lol.
Off again?
glad PSN is back…now ya offered that PSN+ thingy for free for a month…an other offers…start rolling the free offers out we waited long enough….oh wait let me guess you dont have time frame on when to keep this promise as well..or that you might not even offer this free item now…am i right???
ok please bring the store back before the 31st!! thank you
Sony has neither confirmed or denied the May 31 return of the store. It could come back today, tomorrow, or Tuesday. I wouldn’t believe the May 31st date unless Sony themselves confirms it.
Glad 2 have it back up hope the store opens soon and homes stops losing the connection to the server.
when will the psn store be up????
hey sony what the deal with shutting down the network again…..Did someone hacked into it all ready.?
@ip0dnoob8989
I would imagine that for about a week or so the PSN will be working overtime considering how everyone is trying to login at the same time. So the servers are most likely to be at near capacity as everything gets back to normal. It will become more reliable overtime especially since PSN has been down for over 3 weeks and Sony rebuilt the system. So it takes time for a system to stabilize especially on a worldwide scale. However, I’ve had no problems with PSN in my region so far. Sony only restored PSN service to NA early this morning (at around 2:00 AM my time) so it takes some time for things to stabilize.
down agan
wtf
2675 WILL SONY ANSWER??????
back up and running time to kill it in some madden! add me
It was down like a few minutes ago, but now its back :D
can’t wait for sony’s welcome back package they are offering!!!
Psn store will be goin up prolly soon i think around the 17th or at the end of the month this is my best guess.
NAH IT WILL BE UP BY THIS TUESDAY WHEN ALL THE NEW STUFF COMES OUT…. THE SECURITY IS UP NOW THERES NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD BE A LONG WAIT. ITS SUNDAY ANYWAYS, COME MONDAY THINGS SHOULD BE MOVING ALONG. RITE SONY?!!!!
tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I just wanted to thank Sony personally for making me money. I bet a friend $10 that the PSN wouldn’t be up by the end of the first week that Sony posted it would be. When it wasn’t, I went double or nothing for 11:59 pm on Saturday the 14th as the new cut off, and won $20. Thanks Sony, and thank you to all big companies for your predictability.
thank you sony for bringing psn back online :)…. I guess u can now see who the real sony ps3 fans really are, and the real loyal fans.
good work on getting the servers back up sony. hopefully u guys got plenty of extra measures in place to prevent this in the future.
@HawnKeez
poster #42, 44, and 45
#1 before u open ur mouth about a group u obviously know nothing about, do some research. if you did ANY, like me and my older brother did, u would know that Anonymous DOES NOT touch anything when they do these intrusions. Their SOLE objective is to make a statement. not steal identities, top secret files, etc etc. they have shut down several countries governments for things they were doing, touched nothing, deleted nothing, simply shut them down and said change it, they were in the PENTAGON TWICE! Again, touched nothing, deleted nothing, read nothing, moved nothing etc etc. Simply made a demand and said they would get their service back when they changed it. They are a group about making statements, not a group of theft, they are a part of the Free Media Movement. they are not crooks, they are not criminals.
Is the PSN really back down again?
I can’t figure it out. It says that I need to change my password, then it says that an e-mail has been sent to my e-mail address and I have never gotten the e-mail. I had to create a new account which caused me to lose all of my data. Not only that, the server keeps going down. Not happy yet.
Let’s party black ops here I come add me opsd 77
#2 if u would have read any of sony’s updates during this. u would have read that the only thing that MIGHT have been taken was a DB of 2.2mil.. not hundreds of millions of user ids worldwide. sony isnt that stupid or ignorant.. did they have sufficient meens in place obviously not.. but did they split things up by region/area, quite obviously they did. other wise the phase 1 restoration would have been the entire united states getting turned on, not state by state.
#3 hackers rule the internet. they control everything. if they want something they will sure as hell get it. this could have happened to ANY company. to microsoft, sony, nintendo. any major company that allows the saving of CC information and other personal information.
again .. do ur research before u spout out major BS to alot of people who did not enjoy the past few weeks
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good job on getting the servers back up sony. PLEASE make sure you’ve got enough in place now :)
@2745 According to multiple users, it takes some time to get your email.
I made a new psn account (AKA, this one), would I still have to undergo the mandatory password change? Just curious, if anyone can provide me an answer, it’ed be great.
I am not able to log into my account now on my ps3
Hey Guys ITs awesome you guys got it up and running again Im thank ful for your true word and holding out till you knew it could be safe for us to use it again :D just one thing tho I have Multiple accounts on it and i cant get them to change the password and i havent got an email yet :S ….. and im just wanting to say im happy you guys are Back Thank you Playstation :D