PSN reactivation delayed for 'further testing,' likely not coming back this week

by JC Fletcher on May 6th 2011 11:45PM

On Sunday, Sony announced that "some" PSN services, including online play, would come back this week. With very little of this week remaining, you might be wondering if it's still going to happen. Well, it isn't.

In an update on the PlayStation Blog, Sony's Patrick Seybold passes along the bad news that service renewal has been delayed to an unspecified time. "When we held the press conference in Japan last week," Seybold said, "based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system." He didn't flat out say this week is out of the question, but that's definitely the implication.

Seybold apologized for the delay. To those of us (all of us) waiting to get back to our online services, he said "trust me when I say we're doing everything we can to make it happen."

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: delays, playstation, ps3, psn, psn-outage-2011, psp, sony

Reader Comments (307)

I've been surprisingly productive this week, but I'd still like PSN back up some time soon so I can do some online Portal Kombat.

@Raiki

I just bought Mass Effect on Steam for $5. That should hold me for a while till PSN comes back... Hopefully. I already got all the trophies for the single player campaign for Portal 2... need coop :(

@Generalguy41

Lies equals to more lies. Sony is responding to what they know best.

LIES!

@Generalguy41 OO, Good buy. Love the Adept and Engineer class's

@Raiki

Amen, brother. (or sister) Ive been waiting to play MK online since 4/19. If I had known this was gonna happen, I would have saved Story Mode and the Tower for last. Not to mention Brink! My God, I dont want to buy Brink for 360, but I may have to.

@XxComaXxWhiteXx

ON TRUST! YES YES SONY'S GOT MINE! YES MICROSOFT, NINTENDO, AN PC WORLD ARE TAKING NOTES! BEING THE BEST IS HARD AND YOU HAVE TO REINVENT YOURSELF NO MATTER THE COST!!! SONY KNOWS "THEY ARE TAKING THIS ADVANTAGE OF THIS". CATCHUP YOU OTHER CONSOLES!!!!

Curse you hackers. I just want to sync my account to my new ps3, and play Killzone 3 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Is that too much to ask?

@(Unverified)

I did too. My Phat 80 Gig's Blu Ray Drive Bought it, and so I had to get a new slim. I managed to transfer my save files, but now I have lost all my carefully earned Dead Space 2 Trophies.

@bigwhiteyeti

Trophies are tied to your account, not the PlayStation. They should sync up when the PSN comes back.

That said, I'd really like to start playing some Portal 2 Co-Op... so yeah... next week... early in the week hopefully eh Sony?

@RasenganFury I. Hate. Hackers.

@RasenganFury
Yeah! I just bought a PSP and want to play some exclusives, dammit!

@RasenganFury THANK YOU! .. Now I don't feel half as bad for buying a PS3 on the day PSN went down - I got an hour of multiplayer in for Black Ops and then decided to do more campaigns -sigh- .. Wish I would of played more multiplayer now since it was the first time in a year aside from MMO's

@Sphen

I think s/he was referring to was that the Dead Space 2 trophies were on the older PS3, and since PSN had been down, the sync never happened and the transfer to the new PS3 has already happened.

@RasenganFury Do you have any idea how outdated the PSN servers must have been if they pulled the active servers (no maintainance), and if, they, including 3 separate specialist contractors, are in fact "working on PSN around the clock" (which i doubt btw). Also you should be equally pissed at sony, they are using tax money (the FBI) to help investigate the mess they neglected... would anyone like salt for that wound? Sony paid an effective 5% tax rate in fiscal year 2009, what did you pay?

@bigwhiteyeti

If it makes you feel better my 40GB system YLOD yesterday and I had to buy a new console so I swapped out the hard drive so I could save my save games but the hard drive was corrupted so I lost everything including all my Operation Flashpoint Red River trophies... Just needed one or two for the platinum. *sad face*

@The Dark Trooper You CANNOT swap one hard drive from one PS3 and put it in another! It's encrypted and locked to the one machine it was formatted in. Put it in any other PS3 and it will reformat it and you will lose everything.

If you kept your PS3 the best bet is to fix the YLoD (I did it myself a few times, it cost a fiver for thermal paste and I borrowed a heat gun for free) then either back up the saved games to an external drive (but you won't be able to back up locked game saves), or backup everything in one go using the Backup option (I'd delete ALL unnecessary files like movies and music and game install data, else it takes hours) OR when PSN comes back up get on PS+ and save your games to the online cloud.

But don't EVER expect to swap a PS3 HDD from one to another and keep anything. Your drive is not corrupted, it's just locked to your dead PS3... but YLoD can be fixed, at least temporarily!

@The Dark Trooper
If the hard drive was corrupt then your console might be fine just put in a new hdd and enter safe mode and reinstall the newest firmware and it should work, it did with mine.

@(Unverified) Really? Kind of how all the geniuses out there bought machine's know to be defective by design for years.

@The angry pro consumer gaming ga
Seriously, i was having issues with my old ps3 so i bought a new one. It's not like this is Sony's fault, unlike another company and their product.

@RasenganFury Sorry to break it to you kid, but if hardware that isn't even 10 years old is breaking from regular use it IS the fault of the company behind it.

@Robborboy

Kinda like the 360. Of course if the PS3 YLOD was on the scale of the FIASCO that was the 360... I imagine I'd be more concerned. Sometimes complex products fail. But the PS3 YLOD is nowhere NEAR the 360. (And for the record, I own a 360, so I'm not a fanboy trying to "Defend" the PS3.)

@mechafenris

Not to mention the 360's other problems: E74, disc can't read, open tray, destroying it's own discs, video problems, dozens of other error codes(people still haven't found the cause of most of them).

On the PS3 you only get overheated GPU/CPU and worn lasers. On the 360 just about anything can go bad.

Bottom line: If anyone tries to compare PS3 failure rate to 360 failure rate they're a raging fanboy.

@The Scout
Quoted for truth

@The angry pro consumer gaming ga

Wait do you mean the lightbulb? Or are you implying all high priced consumer goods are intentionally designed to fail.

"You CANNOT swap one hard drive from one PS3 and put it in another! It's encrypted and locked to the one machine it was formatted in. Put it in any other PS3 and it will reformat it and you will lose everything."

@(Unverified)

Really? Thanks for the heads up. I know I'll end up buying a PS3 someday, and I'm used to being able to transport an X360 HDD across multiple consoles. This limitation will take some getting used to.

@The angry pro consumer gaming ga
It's not Sony's or Microsoft's direct fault for making shoddy consoles. True, they did install processors that were way too hot for the rest of the equipment, but for one thing, NO ONE ever cleans their fans and heatsinks, and for another, Europe dictated that ALL circuit boards sold for consumer use be LEAD FREE. Way back in the ancient historical origins of soldering, we used tin but found it to be insufficient, being brittle, easily corroding, and that corrosion would crystallize into whiskers that would short out pins. So we added LEAD, which solved all those issues. Now, instead of instituting better recycling programs, they banned all lead. Which means that your PS3 or Xbox sits there being hot as hell, full of dust, and the board flexes a bit, then cools down, then heats up, etc... Anyway, you get broken contacts from the brittle LEAD FREE crap. But that's exactly what electronic manufacturers want. Something that lasts just long enough to get out of warranty before it fails. And even if you DO take care of it and clean it regularly, it will still fail when the solder grows tin whiskers and shorts out everything on the board PERMANENTLY.

@The Scout Re: Comparing PS3 failure rate to 360 failure rate = raging fanboy ... isn't that EXACTLY what you just did? talk about irony.

Oh sweet jesus!!!! Oh come-on!!! Brink comes out in a few days.

@Staticmojo just buy Brink on the PC or 360...

@bigE

I would if playing a shooter on a PC didn't suck. And I use to have a 360 but after the third RRD and the Wii ripoff avatar system, I got rid of that piece of crap system.

@Staticmojo As opposed to the PS3 with the Second Life ripoff and no online play.

Also my PS3 died in the first 30 days, you made a poor choice.

@ShadowXOR

Oh no!! what will I ever do without online play? oh I know still play the games, just not online. And lets see better games, Bluray player. PS3 is a much better choice than an xbox which since losing the exclusive rights to mass effect doesn't really have a good game that justifies owning a 360.

@Staticmojo

*wades into the fray*

Gears of War says hi.

@(Unverified)

He said good games.

;)

@(Unverified) If only Gears of War was a good game .. lol go away fanboy
I own both consoles and I can honestly say Sony gets all the better games especially RPG wise which honestly I can't complain about no PSN - I prefer RPG's over Multiplayer game but it's still great to play games such as Call Of Duty .. Hmm I just wish there were more MMO's for PS3 aside from DCUO & Final Fantasy 14.. Hopefully we'll see some more of these beautiful suckers come out .. I haven't even played DCUO or FF14 but I can tell you .. I won't .. DCUO is too much like World of Warcraft and FF14 has no PVP so i've heard.

@Staticmojo You got downvoted because shooters on PC are the only way to play.

@bigE NO.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
I have a PS3 and a 360. My PS3 is my preferred console but Gears is a good game.

@Staticmojo

I may just break down and get it on 360.

Good time for some sexy Steam sales.

@Frozen Radiator

haha indeed. I've bought Dragon Age Origins Ultimate and Mass Effect 1 this week.

Colour me unsurprised.

@Colin

Color me flabbergasted.

@Colin

Color me blue.

I want to be a Smurf.

@Colin

Color me red.

...oh wait...

@Mach2 the pic of your mega man isn't enough? i mean, he's small, blue, a one man army (not an army of many) and beyond the call of duty, he gets the jobs done... PERIOD.

...but...but I posted exactly at the same time...

..no love :p

@ShadowXIII probably because the shooter generation doesn't realize your avatar is Red XIII.

That's cool guys.

Take your time, do it right. :)

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

We can do it baby, do it tonight.

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