Play On – PSN Restoration Begins Now

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Play On – PSN Restoration Begins Now

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.

PSN-US-Wave-6

Map updated 12:03m Pacific

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!

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4,476 Comments

  • Thank you Sony for your hard work. I’ve always been a Sony man from the PS One to PS3 as well as Sony products. I’m glad you didn’t rush, but took your time… Sony gets 2 thumbs UP in my book.

  • It’s a beautiful thing!

  • was sup ?

  • Thank you Sony….glad that its finally back on

  • When in the hell is the store going to be back up? I have been waiting for 3 weeks to download my DLC from Saints Row 2…

  • Nice Job team. Get ready for the next round. Hehehe

  • Thanks sony for your hard work paying off and expect me to be gaming on this for a long time

  • First?

  • After several long weeks of not being able to sing in, I’m glad the wait is over! While I know it’s been frustrating to not be able to play online, having a more secure system is worth the wait. Hopefully Sony will continue to monitor and update it’s security system more frequently, say maybe once a month. I have been a Playstation fan since the first PS. I owned a 360 to play with relatives that didn’t have a PS3. I hardly ever used it. They eventually got a PS3. I don’t see the point in paying for a network that is not better than the one I was using for free. Needless to say, I no longer have the 360. Nor did I consider buying one just to pay to play online. With that being said…, to each his/her own. I have still enjoyed the use of my PS3 playing offline games, browsing the internet, and watching Blu Ray DVDs. Now why would I turn in my entertainment system for just a plain old game console? Even without the use of the PSN I still got the use of my PS3. Does that make sense to anyone other than me?

  • THANKZ Sony!..Can’t Wait for the Store to Be Up so i Can Buy Arcana Heart 3 and Some Disgaea 3 DLC!!

  • woot psn finaly back time for more Wipeout and killzone online :P glad for yall to b back :D

  • @ chadalicious Actually 242nd :D

  • couldn’t resist

  • I’m glad it’s back up about time! Sony did a great job I know this because I used to be in the IT Industry and I know it can be very difficult to spot attacks especially on all those servers they had. Congrats to the hardworking dedicated Networking Team who made this happen. In the future hopefully this won’t ever happen again with the new security features it should be nearly impossible crack. Hollywood will probably make a silly movie out this situation in a couple of years mark my words.

  • When are we supposed to get are Playstation Plus stuff. I hope the “Welcome Back” package is still up for grabs!!

  • I just want to say thank you for getting us back up and running SONY. I can’t wait to check out the Welcome Back package thanks again for appreciating your customers. PlayStation Network LIVES ON !!!

  • Wow Good 2 B Back !!!!

  • yay its up!!

  • @HawnKeez

    WOW! Someone must be a virgin since they post 3 comments/essays to rant about instead of spending time getting laid

  • XxUltimateGodzXx

    Thank you Sony you guy rock. I was not gonna go to xsucksbox 360 not was i stayed here and I’m not leaving. When i got ps1 it was the best for that time and ps2 was great because i has all sly cooper and ratchet and clank that’s one reason i had it second good games and online like metal gear 1 2 3. And best of all leading ps3 games and online like this is the best. Thank you Go PS3!!!!

  • Thank you for bringing the Network back up again thought there would be a lot more of an update then 3.61 with a Complete Rebuild Of the Network though…Oh well Thanks Again Sony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @twylyte30
    This is a wise person!

  • Thank you sony, for getting the multiplayer portion of the psn up. Its been a grueling set of weeks, but as a loyal sony fan, I stood by until the end. I would also like to thank you so kindly for completing the Firmware. Hopefully, this will prevent future outbreaks of such a grand scale as we witnessed.

    It feels great to walk around in ps Home, and dance in the music area. I am also enjoying my time pwning the little newbies in blops (there seems to be alot of em right now, lol. but thats not important)

    Thank you again, hope you and the crew behind this brilliant scheme we call psn have a wonderful day.

  • I can not tell you how many times i visited this site during the down time. Wanting so bad to post a comment and unable too, thank you Sony for getting this back up and running. Black Ops, here i come with my rusty self!

  • Finally Back! Omg thank you! its been like 23 days damn. But hell no am switching to the 360, i love ps3 :)

  • Thank You so much for all of your hard work to restore this network!!

  • XxUltimateGodzXx

    i misspelled by accident and there’s some typo’s

  • Oh Yeah this is awesome , Finnaly back but not the playstation store =(

  • we r back oline people lets play for days and days

  • Wait a minute…. i am once again a call of duty amature!!!! GTA has got me in the bad habit of using R2 and L2 to shoot people! Damn you PSN outage! LOL jk It’s so nice to have it back that’s for sure. The level of peoples frustration when the PSN was down is testiment to just how good this network really is!

  • Thanks, Sony. I never lost faith in you, (even though I was about to at the 1-Month Mark lol). And thanks to you, I finally got caught up on New Vegas!

    I’d like to see a blog post about the new welcome back package for the users. Take your time, though, I’ll be playing multiplayer for probably the rest of the week. Lol, My Xbox 360 looks so sad.

    The Second APOCOLYPS3 Has ended, PLAY ON!

  • It was definitely a very welcome surprise to come home after work tonight and be able to play online with my friends while self medicating.GOOD TIMES!

  • that is true atleast we are online though

  • Patients paid off.. 2 thumbs up

  • Thank you sony

  • TimeTravelerDMC

    thanks I have been bored not playing online

  • XxUltimateGodzXx

    in comment 254

  • @chadalicious, lmfao! self medicating very nice!

  • fAc3b0oKfReAk18

    Anybody want 2 play ascension I’m at level34 going for level 40 today any1 want to play add me!!!

  • Always and forever a loyal Playstation user!

  • Great to be back, I hope the store’s back soon though:)

  • Awesome job getting the network back up. I must say tho the silence on the playstation store saddens me after the large amount of info they gave us on the network itself.

  • Thanks a lot Sony! as loyal customer since the PSX era I’m happy to have the online service restored, can’t wait to get back on.

  • How.can I change my main name on my PS3?

  • XxUltimateGodzXx

    Me and My Friend want to play Gran Turismo 5 but it was down not anymore

  • Good job sony, the only thing i hated you for was not learning about the situation and telling us sooner.
    But its cool knowing you still wanna help out your customers. Played persona 4 while you were down ;p
    Always checked your site for updates as well as videos of Hard News, and we’re here now. All we need now
    is Playstation Store And We’re Peachy Keen. Keep Up The Good Work =)

  • @bloghawk

    “+ BogHawk on May 15th, 2011 at 5:43 am said:

    Cam8059 do this turn off your PS3.unplug ur cords to ur system and your tv walk over to your cable modem or router whicever you have unplug everything from it wait 1min then plug all you cable modem and router stuff back in wait another min plug all your ps3 stuff back in then turn ur ps3 on and it should work”

    Thanks for the advice. However it still doesn’t work.

    does anyone else have an idea on how to fix this?

    I live in Tennessee and I’ve downloaded the update and when I hit sign in it made me change my password. So i did. Then I tried to sign in and it just will not sign in. It keeps saying ” signing in please wait” “if it is taking a long time to sign in, check your network connection.” I was patient and waited about 30 minutes and it still isn’t finished. So i turned off the ps3 and tried again, sane thing happens” So i did a internet test (under network settings) and it found said everything was available until it got to PSN then it said FAILED.

    Any ideas on what to do??????

  • THANK YOU finally after one month its FINALLY UP!!!!!! now i need to rank up on CoD. im only lvl 1.

  • I am sorry but I have to say this as I am not happy with Sony Right now as I am still pissed over OTHEROS being removed off my system last year as well as the lawsuits over home-brew community jail-breaking as it is not illegal to unlock a system that you already own and I firmly believe that is the real reason why they got hacked because SONY or phony as I want to call them challenged them by saying that they are hack proof and no one can hack their system.

    Heck it has been reported and proving that this so called OS was written using stolen code and open source code under the BDS License.

  • This makes me so happy. Thank you Sony. Although it did take a little to long to get back up, I know ya’ll did your best. Thank you again.

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