PlayStation Network down for maintenance right now

21 April 2011

Sony has acknowledged via the PlayStation Blog that the PlayStation Network is experiencing technical difficulties.

We’re aware certain functions of PlayStation Network are down. We will report back here as soon as we can with more information. We will also provide updates when we can via our @PlayStationEU twitter feed.

Thank you for your patience.

Users are reporting that when they turn their PlayStation 3 on it is unable to connect to the PlayStation Network, and the yare presented with the following error message:

“An error has occurred. You have been signed out of the Playstation Network.”

The cause of the downtime is unknown, however, Kotaku has republished a support mail sent out by Sony helpdesk staff:

Hi,

Due to emergency maintenance all PlayStation®Network and Qriocity services including stores, account management, external auths and CST are currently unavailable since approx 5am GMT this morning.

We don’t yet have an estimated time as to when services will be restored but will provide further updates when they are available.

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