Good news for those three or four people still treating the ongoing PlayStation Network outage as an actual crisis (as opposed to the awe-inspiring PR clusterfuck it truly is): The PSN is back!
More or less.
Sony figurehead Kaz Hirai is currently detailing the return of the firm’s flagship online service, but a pre-announcement media blast characterizes the PSN’s return as a “phased restoration.”
What does this mean for your neglected PlayStation 3? Assuming all goes according to plan, PSN service will be restored gradually to various regions around the globe over the next few weeks. Initially the goal is to restore online gaming functionality, PlayStation Home, the PSN Friends list and third party services such as Hulu and Netflix. Barring the inevitable idiotic blunder, other services will follow shortly thereafter.
With this hilarious/terrible/ultimately meaningless tragedy almost behind us, the only question left unanswered is whether Sony has learned anything from the debacle.
Realistically, I’d guess “no.” This is, after all, the company that created drug paraphernalia as part of its original PlayStation ad blitz and failed to see why this PSP ad campaign might offend people.
UPDATE: It seems the American phase of the restoration will take “several hours.” If you’re anxiously awaiting the exact moment that PSN service resumes in our area, check out Sony’s fancy new map.
You know, for what it is worth I never lost Netflix functionality, I just had to allow it to try and sign in a couple of times before it would quit trying and netflix would work as normal. In any case, I am looking forward to the psn coming back up again, even if I almost never play games online.