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PSN to be 'fully restored' by the end of the week, Sony says

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 31st 2011 8:05AM

Sony announced this morning that it will "fully restore all PlayStation Network services" to America, Europe and Asia by the end of this week. Regions being omitted from this final push include Japan, which recently began its own phased restoration, and Hong Kong and South Korea.

The full functionality includes use of the PlayStation Store, voucher and code redemption, full use of Qriocity and Media Go. The company says that customers can now purchase games and videos from the PSN for PS3 and PSP. (We're checking to find out if there will be a PSN Tuesday update today.)

This also means details on the "Welcome Back" program and, more importantly, the method for redeeming those free games, should be available shortly.

Source: Sony

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

Reader Comments (103)

Finally

@TheShaper you know they're trying soooo hard to get this back up by E3. can you imagine the press conference???

"And this fantastic limited edition Little Big Planet, Uncharted, God of War crossover done in the style of Heavy Rain will be available on the PSN....uhh...whenever we get the network back up and running...."

Heard that one before. Can't wait for my free games

@Friv0lous

blah blah blah "GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE!!!"

@Friv0lous

You havent heard? The free month and games are a limited time offer. You have exactly 45 days from the day PSN shut down to claim them.

@Friv0lous
Same! I'm going to get my PSP titles and use (since I sold my PS3) a friends PS3 to get those titles on my account. So in the future I'll have +2 games if I decide to buy another PS3.

Just a shame the game pickings are quite slim.

@Friv0lous

Yeah same. I can't wait to get the 2 free psp games in time for my plane trip next month. and I'm looking forward to playing infamous and dead nation.

@omgwtf

I am never replying to the 2nd post again, it seems a 100% that you will get downvoted.

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi
Right...cause it's so selfish to want to access the store after FIVE WEEKS OF DOWNTIME!

Some of us have online codes, and passes to redeem. Some of us want access to our store purchases.

@Trilancer Actually you stated that you have 45 days from the shutdown to claim the content, when you actually have 45 days from the start of the program.

@skelbono

Alright, I will never joke on Joystiq. I get it.

@mywhitenoise I have online codes to redeem as well...also have damn near all of the games they are giving out....am I going to complain because of that? nope....I'm not sitting here saying "I WANT TEH FREEZ!!!" had he said he wanted to redeem a code I would have agreed

SHOCKER! Another promise broken.....

@shinjix2

I'm sorry.
Your PSN is in another castle.

So they're missing the 31st date. No surprise there.

Joystiq will be gutted they can't use their working man image anymore

@Rubbishy Me Until Sony does scheduled PSN maintenance. Because, you know, they've never been known to do that in the last four years.

FREE GAEMS

Mm, I'm still worried about this. Especially with that new planned attack from Anon..

As a US guy working in Hong Kong, I'd like to say FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU....
I just hope I can access my account before these offers expire.

@Aeschylus Can't you accesses the U.S. Store from there?

Good news for Sony. I hope they get back on their feet. This also gives them a chance to make the online service better (in terms of security). Hopefully others are taking notice and thinking ahead.

I'm ready....I have an ass ton of codes from games and the like that I need to redeem.....stuff from SOCOM 4 mostly....tho I have a feeling that I have already unlocked some of that stuff the old fashioned way

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

I'm sure you're not the only one either. I'm predicting the PSN to crash all over again within the first 20 minutes from everyone frantically trying to redeem codes!

@whylekat

and because everyone is going to be downloading their free games at the same time.

@whylekat won't they just make it available slowly region by region so that won't happen? Just like they did with Mutli

Todays agenda; dissapointment because I probably wont have free games to distract me from all this terrible coursework :'(

My PSP says it still under maintenance

About damn time, I had to reformat since this entire fiasco started and need to replace missing DLC etc.

I do not understand the picture. :( What has a broken umbrella have to do with this?

@Snappyguy

You idiot, he's clearly shoving a large rod into a wedge of cheese

@Snappyguy he's tryna hose some ant hill... see the ants caused all the outage.

@Snappyguy

Guys, he's sampling a pineapple wedge at the grocery store. If there's a toothpick in it, it's free.

@Acosta02

That's brilliant! I need to start using line of reasoning in my daily life.

"See? There's a toothpick in that Ferrari. Jackpot!"

@Acosta02 SIMPSONS DID IT!

@LinkRazr SOUTHPARK DID IT!

PSN to be 'fully restored' by end of summer, Sony says

by Alexander SIlwinski on June 5th, 2011 8:05AM

@Urethra Alfredo
PSN to be 'fully restored' by end of the year, Sony says

by Alexander SIlwinski on September 5th, 2011 8:05AM

@eNriqeu
PSN to be 'fully ......
*curls up into fetal position*

by Alexander SIlwinski on December 31, 2011 11:59:59AM

@Measlesopolis

PSN to be 'fully restored' by October 21st, Sony says

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 31st 2011 8:05AM

Time to spend these Dead Presidents on the PS Store! I got 99 problems and the PS Store aint one.

@Jay Z

dude...you are Corny....just stop it....

@Jay Z

just go and hit on yo thick chic... leave real gaming to us.

I'll be glad when Sony gets everything up and running normally again. I'll also be glad to get my freebies, though to be honest I wasn't much put out by the whole outage thing. Since I'm not too big into the multi-player aspect of the PSN, about the only things that really got me riled about the whole situation was the fact that Sony waited 9 days or so to tell everybody that their personal information had potentially been leaked by hackers and that I had to go do a credit check and change some passwords. Doing all of that took me about 30 minutes and a sigh of relief that nothing had been compromised.

then ps4 is already on its way, pathetic sony jerks...

technology eh? can't beat em? join em.

@ColdHeat

Resistance is futile

I WILL find a way to get those games for the two systems I don't have anymore... for now (PSP & PS3).

Especially since they have Infamous as one of the offers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLTZctTG6cE

Can't wait to redeem some all these vouchers I have.

Yay!!!

"End of the week" is a little vague. How about some specifics here?

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