This press release just hit the wire – PlayStation Store and related services (like voucher redemption) back this week:
SONY AND SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE FULL RESTORATION OF PLAYSTATION®NETWORK SERVICES
Tokyo, May 31, 2011 – Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced today that Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI, the company) will fully restore all PlayStation®Network services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea by the end of this week. The company will also resume Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity™ for PlayStation®3 (PS3®), PSP® (PlayStation®Portable), VAIO and other PCs. Details for Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea as well as the remaining services on Qriocity will be announced as they become available.
The company implemented considerable security enhancements to the network infrastructure, as well as conducted testing of the payment process and commerce functions. The first phase of PlayStation Network and Qriocity restoration began on May 15 in the Americas and Europe/PAL territories, followed by Japan and Asian countries and regions on May 28, when the company brought partial services back online. With this partial restoration users were able to access to some of the services such as online game play, account management, friend lists and chat functionality were restored. The full restoration of PlayStation Network as well as part of services to become available on Qriocity will include:
• Full functionality on PlayStation®Store
• In-game commerce
• Ability to redeem vouchers and codes
• Full functionality on Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PS3, PSP, VAIO and
other PCs
• Full functionality on Media GoCustomers will be able to purchase and download games and video content from the PlayStation®Store on PS3 or PSP. In addition, consumers will have full access to Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity through PS3, PSP, VAIO and other PC’s. Service restoration of Video on Demand powered by Qriocity™ and Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for a variety of network-enabled Sony devices will be announced later.
“We have been conducting additional testing and further security verification of our commerce functions in order to bring the PlayStation Network completely back online so that our fans can again enjoy the first class entertainment experience they have come to love,” said Kazuo Hirai, Executive Deputy President, Sony Corporation. “We appreciate the patience and support shown during this time.”
The company will be offering customers a “Welcome Back” package of services and premium content to all registered PlayStation Network* and Qriocity account services. The details of this program will continue to be detailed regionally.
* Only available for those countries with access to PlayStation®Store.
We will update the PlayStation Blog when the PlayStation Store is once again open for business.
Yes, Playstation Store coming back and its almost SUMMER BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are not bringing back the store. Sony has never had the intention of bringing in back. How long before “Soon” and “We’ll keep ya posted” stop being accepted as legitimate answers? Last week it was “targeted” and now we get “end of the week” Sounds pretty fishy to me. Same vagueness I’ve come to expect from sony. Saturday night we’ll get another blog saying pretty much the same thing these other’s have. “Thank You for your patience” and “As soon as we know more, You will.”
This week as in tomorrow
SONY JUST PLAIN SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WILL WAIT TIL FRIDAY AND THEN SAY OH WE NEED ANOTHER WEEK< THEN ITLL BE UP BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK< AND THEN THE NEXT AND THEN THE NEXT! There are SANITATION COMPANIES THAT DON"T HAVE AS MUCH CRAP AS SONY. OH BUT DON"T ANY ONE GIVE THEM ANY CRITICISM OR THEIR LITTLE SONY SCROTUM JOCKEYS WILL SPAM YOU TO DEATH
I thought it was the 31st. Now it is this week?
Sweet, soon I’ll be able to buy Plants vs. Zombies. Good Luck with the future, and hopefully something like this will never happen again.
Can’t wait for E3 baby!
Finally, i love you guys :)
OH YEAH!!!!!!
Well, following these blogs have been pointless. I never did until the network went down, and I only started hoping to get information about all of it. Should of known better. Everyblog that was about the network, and there are only a few, all say the same nonsense about “Soon” and “We will keep you posted.” It’s not going to change. Sony does not care about it’s customers.
lulz @ 502
XBL rips you off to your face, sneaky ninjas gotta do it behind your back. Maybe I’ll stick with PC.
And of course the date of their post says the 30th so they can say that they warned us before their estimated target date. THEY ARE BY FAR THE MOST PATHETIC COMPANY IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. CAN ANYONE NAME ANOTHER COMPANY WHO HAS TREATED THEIR CUSTOMERS LIKE THIS? I MEAN DAMN Think about it (this is just a guess)SONY has what maybe at most a thousand people in their company of millions or at least a couple 100,000, given that most people work 8 hr days? And according to SONYs own? HOW MANY MAN HOURS? ADDING IN ALL THE UPDATES THEY NEVER GAVE US? SHOULDN”T THE STORE BE UP BY NOW?????????????
LOL this week !!Hey Sony good job putting consummers off again !! A new world record of service.!
I HOPE THAT THE HACKERS EAT YOUR ASS HOLES AGAIN, and I’m sure is another week more and another. I hope your happy
However I have decided to become a Social Media Manager. I can type vague answers and ignore people, but I think that only works with Sony. Most other companies probably have actual jobs for these guys.
@549 AMEN!
Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager — more like Social Media Mis(s)manager. Seriously what does a Social Media Manager suppose to be doing? Providing constant feedback, interacting with the community, trying your best to answer questions and dampen people’s frustrations. Isn’t that what you are supposed to be doing? Instead we get a press release which was probably written by the PR department. So tell me Jeff, what have you been doing as social media manager? At least have one of your underlings try to control the fire going on here. But you guys aren’t even trying.
Sony.It.Only.Does.Nothing.
Will new content be in the store as soon as it updates? I’m not referring the Welcome Back Program. I’m talking about content that was supposed to release on April 27, will that content be made available the instant the store returns, or will it just return to its previous state of April 20th?
Obviously, I’m not expecting a response.
More waiting, more waiting more waiting more waiting more waiting
thank you sony! thanks for working as hard as you could to bring this back up!
what about the welcome back package will we get that by the end of this week
Another week, another week. Another week
“Full restoration by the end of month” and the end of month is here and a have a UPDATE
wow sony just woooooooow thank you playstation
The new content will consist of you waiting another month for time to pass you by cause Sony might not put it out, IMO if they did would be a freaking miracle!
More weeks and more weeks and more weeks
sweet now i can get excited for excalation
Long life the hackers
yay i can hopefully finally get my DLC for my games i’ve been waiting forever to get it don’t disappoint me now sony i’ve been patient but don’t exspect me to gt those free game you promise they don’t interest me one bit i lonly care about getting the dlc for my games
PLASTATION IT ONLY DOES BULLS****
Not sure they are working hard enough if you can’t fully restore services by the end of 1 month what makes you think another passing with no store counts as hard work?
@516 I think the Welcome Back program has partially started i.e. the “extra” 2 months for PSN+ subscribers. I subscribed on April 2011 and saw that my subscription has been extended to June 2011. Only problem is 1 out of the 2 months have come by and gone so in fact we are only getting one month extra and not two. Sneaky Sony.
Sony.It.Only.Does.Sneaky.
I meant June *2012*
Ok…….end of da month……….still nothing?
It better be up by 2nite, thats all i can say.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE EVERYONES PLAYSTATION PLUS WILL NOW LAST>>>>>>>>>>>FOREVER!!!!!!!
…. REALLY? …. REALLY?
WTF HAPPENED TO THE END OF MAY, F***ERS?
So by Friday Sony is going to tell us we will have to wait another week…etc.etc..
Hello thx sony!!!!!!!!! so MUCH
@568 You mean I gotta wait til Armageddon to get some DLC going on!? SMH
ARE YOU PEOPLE ARE BLIND AND STUPID
NOW YOU HAVE TO WAIT 168 HOURS MORE
BECAUSE THEY DIDN DO NOTHING LAST WEEK
NOW THEY ARE GOING TO START TO WORK!!!!!!
PLEASE SONEY RAPE MY WALLET ASAP….
what happened to the end of may? my happy smile turned into a sad face
why Friday who ever said end of may in Sony should get fired
Any way for what thing if next week they are going to give us a update and more updates and not the Ps Store
well there ya go is a diff between targeted and will be and you ask for update and ya still cry at least this time they said they would be up by the end of the week and go ahead for the name callers and the sony haters but im still wondering if you hate them so much why do you sit on their blog all day saying im going junkbox it just doesnt make any sense lol
THEY JUST BUILD GAMERS UP JUST BREAK THEIR HEARTS> ENOUGH WITH THE FALSE PROMISES>I THINK THEY BETTER ADD ON SOME MORE WORTHLESS CRAP TO THE WELCOME BACK PACKAGE> I MEAN WHY NOT ITS NOT LIKE THEY ARE GONNA GIVE IT TO US. BY THE WAY IT LOOKS IF THE STORE EVER DOES COME BACK SONY IS GONNA BE GIVING OUT WELCOME BACK PACKAGES TIL THE END OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hooray! I’ll finally redeem my MK code! \o/
FOR THE RECORD I NEVER ONCE SAID I WAS GOING WITH THE JUNK BOX MICROSOFT IS FOR F*GS
Are you guys seriously congradulating sony? They just said that the store would be up today for them to come on today and give us another week is B.S. F you Sony I am done. Do you have a buyback policy on my 2 PS3’s?
I really wish I liked what Microsoft has to offer, because I do not like having carrots dangled in front of me. Sony it wasnt your fault you were hacked. But the way you have dealt with it has made me wish I had somewhere else to go. You inactions and false statements are giving hackers support.
LuiguiPR You should be thank full the internet is back up for PS3 and STOP!! acting like a baby jeeze chill if you dont like waiting than to bad!
and do you think they will turn on the store to all at once im doubting it prob going to go slow for the fact yhey are going to get swamped so im guessing it will be one region at a time