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.
IF YOU WANT FREE STUFF, FIND A 3.55 PS3 AND INSTALL A CFW…..+1000 FREE GAME TO DOWNLOAD. THATS A HELL OF A WELCOME BACK PROGRAM…
I hope you guys are prepared for a mob when the store re-opens, because everyone is going to be visiting and downloading crap.
i wasnt including you midknight i have read where you stand i was talking about the ones who daily say they are going junkbox but they still hangaround and i was not congratulating no one i was just saying its the first solid will be we got from them not a target
@lilcanuck Who is saying they are going to the Xbox, only a tiny minority. Majority of users here are rightfully complaining at the exorbitant amount of time Sony is taking to bring up the PlayStation Store as well as their crappy public relations and social media relations.
People just want to be able to access the content that they PAID SONY MONEY for but which they have been unable to access for well over 40 days! Majority of us aren’t going to the Xbox (this generation anyway) because we have already invested too much already in the PlayStation ecosystem – DS3 controllers, PlayStation Move, Sharpshooter, DLCs, Games, Trophies etc.
But keep this up and the PS4 may well be out of the race already.
and i just explained myself if you never said it it WASNT towards you so quit flaking out on me unless it pertains to you
Hmmm… Kaz Hirai Went To “Christian University”??? Well… At Least He Didn’t Go To “YALE”! But I Can Not Help But Feel Like SONY Is “Playing Hooky” Just The Same.
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Wow. Quit Draggin’ My Heart Around. All I Have Left… Other Than My Sporadic Fantasys Focused On Kate Hudson Or Veronika Simon… Is My Passion For Video Games. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT To Get WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT???
Whoa, cool it on giving Jeff crap.
This is nothing but a very lame, last second effort to provide Tim Schaff the ability to say something slick like, “We’ve begun restoring full service to our customers and have provided information regarding the details via our blog, as of yesterday”, when he sits in front of the committee later today. The same committee that’s gonna want to know exactly what the hell Sony is doing to “protect it’s consumers” and “provide honest detailed information concerning their services”. The same committee you ducked out on almost a month ago.
I hope they hand you your ass Tim. I really do…
ok first off, great news sony! secondly, now can all of the whiners stop posting store related crap on other blog posts!?
You would think people would be happy to know a for sure date, but then again you said it would be up by the end of the month, so who cares .
@568, or what, you’re going to cry?
@NLMX85-USA
Yeah but Ole Canuck has seen the SONY SCROTUM JOCKEYS attack any of us who try to give an honest complaint. Thinking that because PSN if free that we don’t have a right to say anything. I think the 3 to 5 hundred dollars we’ve paid, plus games, downloads, themes avatars etc that we’ve bought gives us the right to B***** if we want to. AND BESIDES THIS BULLS*** IS ALL ON SONY> NOT THE HACK BUT CERTAINLY ALL THE CRAP SINCE
so again sony lied, what a suprise. guess few more days wont hurt. but jezzzzzz keep your mouth shut if you cant do it when you say. or dont wait till the day of the deadline then give a bs date, wtf man
So when you say by the end of this week are we talking Earth time or Sony time? Because according to Sony by the end of this month (may) somehow translates to By June 5th… so the end of this week might = 3 weeks Earth time
thanks sony
@Stackcluster
Pretty much haha, which kinda of sucks . they really should just say friday.
thanx midknight24 im not trying to tell the lot of you to stop or even include you we all are entitled to our opinion even me i just hate the whiners who say im jumping ship than are here daily still whining go already if you are done with sony dont sit here stirring the pot
Fainlly!!! Thank you, Sony
I hate to say it, but Jeff probably needs to go. I’m not blaming him for the delay, but it appears that he is in way over his head. Sony needs someone who can keep their customers informed and not make the situation worse by failing to squash rumors and waiting until the last possible second to tell us of any delays. I read that same press release last night, hours before it was posted here, on a different site. I think that shows that Jeff does not consider us a priority.
I have a question:
what if i redeemed a code while it was down, do i still have that content or am i gonna lose it?
it should still be there if not i would contact sony and tell them
Hurry up, I got BBC2 and Black Ops DLC’s to buy
Rion_TKarsa
jeff can only tell us what sony heads want us to know
Is not coming today and not tomorrow
Is coming end of this week!!!!!
And you people are happy for more waiting
Not tomorrow and not TODAYYY
over 129 hours of more waiting went it only takes me 7 hours to sell my Ps3 and not at Gamestop
I like stirring Crap with SONY but I keep it consistent. THEY JUST SUCK, I hate the people that b**** at SONY until someone else starts and then they B**** at them for B****ING. Like they just wanna attack anyone.We should have ALL BANDED TOGETHER A LONG TIME AGO and really stand up to SONYS crap instead of a few of uniting now to try to say this isn’t right. There is always more strength in numbers
Can’t wait well we still have our downloads that was already in the store or we got to buy it again??
and there you are
See this is exactly what I don’t like about Sony, they lie to their consumers yet again, by the end of the month wow really? Not that i care about the Playstation Store being up, it’s just that they can’t stick with what they promised, IT ONLY DOES LIEING.
NOTICE NO SONY EMPLOYEE WOULD EVEN ATTEMPT TO TRY TO REPLAY TO SOMEONE ON HERE TODAY!!!! JUST SAYIN DONT THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA<<<< OR THAT IT WOULD EVER HAPPEN
i just want to shoot a zombie in the head, from this post it sounds like the store works just turn it on and stop the bs testing
i have some few words to say
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU SONY!!!!!!!
YOU POST ABOUT GAMES BUT NOT FIX THE DAM BOX!!!!!!!!!!!
DAM U SONY
YOUR GOING TO 10 TO 0 I HOPE YOU LOOSE ALOT OF PEOPLE WHEN YOUR NEXT CONSOLE ARRIVES
and i got another few words as well
YOU SAID END OF THIS MONTH WELL IT IS IF I DONT SEE THE STORE UP BY TOMORROW GOD I SWEAR I HOPE SOMEONE SUES YOU FOR IT
YOU POSTED ABOUT GAMES WE DONT CARE ABOUT ENOUGH WITH THE DAM POST ABOUT GAMES AND SO CALLED TRAILERS AND BLOODY FIX THE STORE
YOU UNLEASHED THE DARK SIDE OF ME SONY AND IL MAKE SURE MY DARK SIDE WONT GET EVEN WORSE
thank you
1 of the new angry mob
THEY ACTUALLY JUST HIRED A NEW BS OFFICER LOL
WTF.
I just want to play Dirt 3 online for god’s sake!!
Hey Sony, how much is your cut of video game sales??
I’d like that portion back, please.
and i wont deny you your rights and wont stoop to calling ya names you are a consumer to let your voice be heard wether you are for or against sony yes the updates were not given and that was most of your gripes mine included
Good job sony, can’t wait for playstation store to be back
Wow… letting us know that the store is gonna be up “this week” a day before the deadline?
-_-
most of the blogs about the games was from the game producers like insomniac suckerpunch etc not sony
i got $50 for you sony but the thing says its under maintance.
turn the store on
so bored killing noobs my kdr is at 2.14 alltime in blkopps
and 3.68 weekly with 1500 kills since monday
ya kind of tired of getting a 25 and 8 kd ratio on blk ops not all that fun but capture the flag is where all the good players are and they were good got my a$$ handed to me lol
Finaalllyyyyyy
i Miss You Much
Oh it won’t be the end of the week how many times was it said the network would be up but it never was… It will probably be another month before it’s up
And it only took two and a half months. Pat yourselves on the back Sony you’ve done it again….
Anybody else notice what they didn’t mention in the post? The Welcome Back package? What is the delay going to be on this one, end of June?
@595
No, but im gonna get ticked
You know if they would just make SUPERNATURAL the GAME and gave it to me free I would be settled.
2 and a half months ? not sure which calendar your looking at but its 1 and a half
the store works but they wont turn it on because they need to test it 20,000,000,000 times still