PlayStation Network Down: Only Older PS3 Consoles Affected

March 1, 2010 By 30 Comments

Thousands or maybe even millions of PlayStation 3 gamers from all across the world were left frustrated yesterday, when some sort of glitch hit Sony’s PlayStation Network – the Internet-based service that connects PS3 consoles to online stores, downloads and multiplayer games.

According to a report at pcworld.com, the glitch meant that PlayStation 3 users were unable to connect to the online service. That meant that they were unable to connect to the PlayStation store, download any software, or even play certain multiplayer games online with their friends.

PlayStation Network Down: Only Older PS3 Consoles Affected

But according to messages posted on Twitter, the problem only appears to be affecting the older PlayStation 3 consoles, and not the newer “slim” models that were launched recently. The very first reports of the problem started surfacing online late on Sunday afternoon (U.S. time).

Acknowledgment of the problem came from Sony’s U.S. unit in the form of a blog and a Twitter posting. But according to Makiko Noda – spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo – as of 3pm Monday, Japan time, the company had still not determined the cause of the problem.

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  • mattmatt99

    wow iv just turned on my ps3 to find this problem, was massively worried and kind of still am but at least im not tha only one. please sony fix it soon.

  • mark

    pure bull shit pay all that money and they cant even keep it going sony sucks

  • Anthony Redmond

    I can't play any games online or not nothing works. This i think is down to the fact that the trophies have been deleted. I only purchased Aliens V Predator this weekend and can't play it, not happy
    Think i will stick to bying games for the Xbox 360 only from now on!!

  • Charlie

    Not only can we not play our games we have purchased, but also my son's 40gb PS3 formatted itself and has lost all his data!!! We are getting copyright and cannot load errors when trying to play our downloaded games which I have receipts for – its very frustrating to lose all our game data!

  • JAMIE

    I HAVE A OLDER PS3 AND I JUST KEEP GETTING 8001050F
    I CANT EVEN PLAY A GAME OFFLINE NOW
    IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT LOADING TROPHY INFORMATION COULD NOT BE COMPLETED AND THE GAME WILL QUIT ????????
    ITS DRIVING ME MAD
    CAN ANYONE HELP
    CHEERS

  • The_OG_Corpral

    Woah…I discoverd this this morning (Europe)! I noticed that my downloaded theme wasnt on…so i went to pu it back and i tuned out corrupted! I couldnt sign in, and all of my purchased content was un-usable! Example- Fat princess, Lost Plannet Demo, LittleBigPlannet Items. All of it gone!, like i never purchased them! All that money i spend on Playstation Store…Possible gone forever! iv spent around 100pound of content for the years on PS Store. But have some faith! Sonys trying their best guys!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000533975395 Lee Watson

    when will we found out when the ps3 phat is working again?????

  • Bazooka J Rambo

    Bugger! Get it fixed!

  • Lightningslim

    Argh! Can't even copy downloaded games to my PSP!

  • darren

    yea im in scotland haing problems signing in today

  • Sladey78

    Cant even play fifa, even if i dont want to play online. Rubbish

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623006948 Helen 'nungesser' Mutton

    i cant load my game! I don't even play online! :( any news on timing a fix yet?

  • beatstreet1

    cant sign into to play online COD, well fed up

  • chris

    same here when are they gonna sort it????

  • COLIN

    EVERY BUDDY SHOULD ASK FOR THEIR MONEY BACK IF ITS NOT FIXED OR GIVE THEM A NEW PLAYSTATION3 SLIM LINE.

  • brad

    what a load of s*** no cod xbox will be back out then

  • Harleyyy

    i dont have a slim line but i can get online ? this is strange please sort it out for the rest of the gamers with the chunky ps3s!

  • Anthony

    I agree with colin… this could cost sony alot of money!! do you think they will argue that we dont pay for an online service like you do with an x-box?? if so i will look into the laws re-garding getting money back!! looks like im back to level 0 of cod:2 :(

  • William

    @COLIN

    If not fixed, I feel the replacement of the PS3 slim should happen with a $50 online gift card. :)

  • RUDY23MK

    i agree if the problem doesnt get fixed or u lose data and downloaded purchases they should refund us our money for a new ps3 slim or give out new slims

  • Hustla

    Scammers cant even update us on what is happening, when you pay a lot of money and a company takes more time putting up a response its suspect behavior.

    SONY is going to lose a lot of clients because of the way they are handling this.

  • Mike

    Nothing works, I can't play COD MW2, I can't stream Netflix movies, what a crock of sh!t. Including the games that I have paid for, I now have a $1,000 paper weight. Nice.

  • N00b

    this reminds of when the 360 had the red ring of death.

  • Anderson Cooper

    When i tried to play my online game, it said "unable to load trophy information. the game will quit." Then I checked my trophies, and all the trophies from that game were gone! Then I tried one of my other games, my trophies for that game disappeare too, but the system didn't make the game quit like it did for my online game. Also, my PS3 couldn't get online on Playstation network all day. my PS3 is the old kind, not the slim kind.

  • afonso

    i have a 60gb ps3 the very first ps3 console that was realeased. my trophies are all intact and my themes as well, demos and game data.
    my only problemis that I cant log into PSN
    i dont want to lose my current prestige level on MW2 ;´(
    however i can play offline games such as skate 2
    thanks

  • http://www.bedbugshowtogetridofthem.org/ Kristin Mattews

    Yes this glitch is really getting into my head now. But I choose not to be irritated by this but instead do something about it. But if in case this will not work, then I might have to re asses my reaction. Good luck to me.

  • http://aol.com mwbaseball93

    it just fixed for me!

  • http://aol.com mwbaseball93

    playin black ops now

  • sekki

    i have playstation 3 slim and the problem that the old console has i have

  • denise

    we are having trouble to.Prince edward Island,canada. keeps saying we are not logged in to the playstation network. when you go to netflix if you keep pressing the back button when it says your not logged in it will bring up the netflix page. It worked for us so we are able to use netflix just not able to do online gaming. everything else seems fine. we don't have a slim but it's 250gb. The kids have a five day weekend and they are getting a little cranky. On the upside the weather is beautiful so they are finding other ways to spend their time! :)