Now that some PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming and entertainment, we’re happy to provide details about the “Welcome Back” appreciation program for customers in North America. We developed the program as an expression of our gratitude for your patience, support and continued loyalty during the service outage. From all of us at PlayStation, thank you and welcome back!
This package will be made available to all existing registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users in North America (US and Canada), and will be made available shortly after we have fully restored the service. More specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live.
All PlayStation Network customers can select two PS3 games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.
- Dead Nation
- inFAMOUS
- LittleBigPlanet
- Super Stardust HD
- Wipeout HD + Fury
For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.
- LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
- ModNation Racers
- Pursuit Force
- Killzone Liberation
- A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
- Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
- Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
- To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.
We’d like to thank all of our publishing and development partners who’ve contributed to the Welcome Back program, including Bigbig Studios, Codeglue, Digital Leisure, Guerilla Games, Heavy Water, Housemarque, Lockwood, Loot, Mass Media, Media Molecule, SCE Cambridge Studios, SCE Studio Liverpool, SCE San Diego Studios, and Sucker Punch Productions. We couldn’t have created such a compelling package without them!
As a reminder, you will be able to access the above content shortly after services are fully restored. We are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible. Please visit the following sites for more information about the Welcome Back program in Europe and Latin America.
Thank you again for your support!
I haven’t played too much Infamous, and it looks like it’d be a pretty good game to just blast the living heck out of enemies when you’re bored, so I’m definitely going with that. Wipeout I didn’t have too fun a time when playing it on the PSP, but then again, MNR felt worse on the PSP as well, so who knows? On the PSP, I might get Pursuit Force and Killzone, haven’t decided yet. I don’t watch too much movies, so the rental thing would probably be useless unless I got some HD movies I’ve been wanting to see, but the +60 PS+ Days is always good, and +100 PSN stuff isn’t half bad either. You guys must really be wanting to reward us for our patience, dumping all these free goodies on us.
GOOD GOD…
I thought that you would give us some PSN only games. I really didn’t expect major games like inFamous, etc! THANK YOU very much Sony! ahahah I will be downloading Dead Nation, Little Big Planet, ModNation Racers, and Little Big Planet for my PSP. I am running out of space on my 16 gb memory stick for my PSP. LOL too much good stuff from the PSN Store!
I appreciate this very much.
Sincerely,
A lifelong, loyal Sony customer :)
this is awesome….but what about us in the UK? :( we didn’t have any PSN either and have stayed loyal *cries*
This is crap!!! I would rather have store credit. I could care less about the games they put on there and i bet ill free the same about the movies too. Everyone wants something so to make every one happy give us credit that way everyone can get what they want. Im for one am not happy with anything about sony. Please try harder sony. We don’t want old games that most of us already own.
Thanks for all your hard work Sony and for giving us all a chance for some really great free stuff, really generous of you to give out 2 free games to keep along with all this other stuff!!! Can’t wait to try out inFAMOUS! Really appreciate you and I’ll continue being a happy PS3/Sony supporter for years to come!!! Keep those games and downloads coming guys! I’m ready to spend some quality time this summer with my PS3!!! Thanks again!
People don’t realize their will be more free stuff for our Playstation Plus so i’m glad.
i can’t play fifa 11 no playstation store is down
I have to say I am grateful for being able to keep the free things forever. If you want Ratchet and Clank: Quest For Booty, make a European PSN account. 2 out of 5 games? I’ll take inFAMOUS and Wipeout HD. People on these forums are a bit greedy, though. Asking for more and more games. Yes, a few other games like Assassin’s Creed 1 or Prototype may’ve made this deal sweeter, but just be happy that SONY is giving us anything.
This looks pretty good, especially for someone that just recently got the system. Little disappointed in the PS3 titles just because I own all of them already either from day 1 purchases or sales/PS+ discounts. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a good deal, just sucks for those of us that I can’t take advantage of an offer. The PSP on the other hand are great and I am not sure which two I will pick. I am also happy to see that there is an extra reward for those that already had bought in and shown loyalty to PS+ since now I won’t have to pay for a couple of extra months to renew. Everything else is just a nice bonus beyond that for me.
Only thing I am waiting to hear about now is if Canada will get some sort of credit check package much like the US residents.
I think the list is a pretty good list considering that they did not have to give us anything. It is a great gesture I think and I appreciate all we are getting. You never know if this is the final list either…they may add or change it before the store is up but I don’t have any of them games and have only played the demos. I will be getting LBP & inFamous. Thank you a ton Sony and can not wait to get my Mortal Kombat redemptions.
@SonneKonig im a loyal sony consumer, I got nothing out of the deal, and see no problem with it. sony doesnt owe me a thing.
I already own all the retail games on the list except for pursuit race. Should I get Dead NAtion?
so now that i have changed my password and such why cant i log on to psn says my pass word is wrong??
@1328 Did you read the whole thing? It has a link to the UK welcome back program. You guys get all of these games + Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
THank you Sony, Greatly appreciated… Modnation for the PS3 would have been amazing though
I own most of the games they are offering and don’t want the rest, but Idc. I just want the store back.
I agree with Artemisth…. Only Dead Nation will be useful to me. And only a whole year free ps plus would be of any service to me, as I pay yearly…. I dont need credit for 2 out of 12 months… I would rather spend how ever much that is worth, plus the worth of the games, freely on anything I actually need/want… why do they get to choose. Pick an even dollar amount sony, and give THAT to everyone, idiots
Almost everyone is getting inFAMOUS. Its the best game on the list besides LBP. And for the little babies crying about it just be happy we are getting free games. THANKS PSN!!!!
You realy didn’t have to do that Sony, but thanks anyway. Im just happy thats its partialy back online.
OMG thank you . Sony’s done more than enough . it’s great to be back online again and i look forward to expieriencing even more fun on my ps3 in the future . Looking forward to Infamous 2 coming june 7 th . Heres to brighter days ahead .
help!!!!!!!
amazing game selection, i thought they were going to be some ps1 classics or minis. Well done Sony.
+ Grimm624 +
I couldn’t agree more. I knew they would either give us games such as LBP that everyone already has, or cheap arcade games. I’m sorry but Sony dropped the ball on this. They had a chance to make it up to everyone and the messed up. They could have let you pick a game of your choice or something. Also can’t wait to see the “awsome” PSN+ selection when the store goes live. You know that is going to be watered down to the bare bones.
#1310 I to have had this problem it has happen to me twice already and i changed my password twice and it keeps happening might just be a glitch or something…
Sweet. Dead Nation looks like a terrific pickup!
Any word on whether or not accepting these free games means you agree not to participate in any kind of class action suit?
Thank you Sony!! Looking forward to checking out Playstation Plus!
i’ll take wipeout hd and dead nation please :)
Wow it is true, you really can’t please everyone. Americans are spoiled rotten. Quit making us all look bad and be thankful for everything you have. sheeeeesh! I mean really!? you want more?
this is a joke! After all of my pain and suffering this is what I get??? I need moar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great job sony thanx for the updates
the children are so greedy. lol.
Well this sucks. I have almost all of those games. Why can’t we just get gift cards?
Wow, such awesome choices!
I’ll get iNFAMOUS and LBP for PS3, for PSP I’ll get LBP PSP and ModNation Racers.
It would be awesome if you gave us free PS2 games on PSstore. Like Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando.
We want see YouTube HD 720p on the PlayStation 3 in Internet Browser … Please
Heck yea sweet thnx alot sony.
@PeLiiGroSo-_-PR how did you get the classic ermac?
I appreciate the free games, but I wish they were a little more recent, if I had Arcana Hearts 3, I’d be set.
are the games discs or downloads
First, Thank you Sony….. But, I have a minor complaint. I have all of these PS3 games. Can I have a $20 credit to PS Store instead?
NICE HERE I COME!!! ADD ME!!!!
They will have to do “BETTER THAN THAT!” All our personal information hacked & they want to give us that? Is this a JOKE. SURE LOOKS LIKE IT & IT’S ON US!!!
SOOOOO I heard we are going to have to pay toplay now, I say no FRIGGIN way if so there no better than xbox .It’s not our fault! Don’t make us pay that would be some BS sony.
@gold1617 i’d assume downloads, as shipping costs on discs would get expensive.
I Own all these Games….. So all I get is a free month of Playstation Plus that I am already a member of? So for 3 weeks of down time I am only gonna get $4.17 from sony….. Wow Thanx sony! :(
@10
No.
Just.
No.
First off, imo, black ops is horrible. Second, these are good choices!
You do NOT realize what you’re missing out on.
I’m in Mexico but I buy my PSN games from the USA store and I currently have a 50 and 20 usd PSN cards waiting for when the shop is back, so I was wondering if I’m getting my PS+ subscription in my USA acount or in my Mexican acount? I’m asking because its a pain in the a$$ to find PSN cards here in Mexico and I dont want to waste the PS+ subscription.
Most people already have a number of these games on this list Sony. Add MAG which is a Sony exclusive greatest hit as well and already has a trial open to everyone on Playstation Store. MAG needs the extra players to keep the queue times for games low in the coming months and an online first person shooter will show much greater interest than the titles you have on there now.
THANK YOU SONY!!!!!
I LOVE PLAYSTATION 3
not really necessary for me..but thank you..very generous…SONY RULZ…..im glad to be back…..