PSN Store returns 24th May - report

By Robert Purchese Published 19 May, 2011

Bi-weekly updates to get up to speed.

Sony will try to bring the PlayStation Store back online on 24th May.

That's what the company allegedly wrote to publishing partners in a memo intercepted by Gamasutra.

Sony apparently plans two content releases a week for the next two weeks to get back to speed.

"We thank you for your patience as we work to resume service of the PlayStation Store," wrote memo author Jack Osorno, PlayStation Network content manager.

The first push will happen on 24th May and contain content that was supposed to appear on 26th April.

The second push will happen on 27th May and contain content from 3rd May.

The third and fourth pushes will happen on 31st May and 3rd June, and contain content originally to be spread over three weeks.

What comes back when isn't set in stone: "If there are concerns, we are willing to consider adjusting the release date of your content on this schedule," wrote Osorno. "Adjustments will be made on a case by case basis."

Whether Sony will offer developers severely affected by the PSN outage any additional assistance Osorno didn't say.

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Comments (35) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Snufkin #1 1 year ago

    Praise be!

    Edit: In related news I've just had this email from Lovefilm:

    "You probably know that Sony have relaunched the PlayStation®Network and that, in turn, our streaming service has resumed on the PS3™. It's been a frustrating couple of weeks for all concerned, so thanks for hanging in there.

    And because we always want to give you great value and a top quality service, you'll be getting £5 off your next payment – no quibbles, no hassle; it's our goodwill gesture to LOVEFiLM members who watched a film on the PS3™ in the month before the PSN went down"

    This is good news for everyone who has a lovefilm sub. My Lovefiilm subs are pre-paid until next January though (got a 30% discount) so I wonder if this will still count towards my next payment in February 2012. Shouldn't have thought.
    Edited by Snufkin at 19/05/11 @ 16:53

  • X201 #2 1 year ago

    "Bi-weekly updates to get up to speed."

    Rob, Bi-weekly means once every two weeks.

  • linksdad #3 1 year ago

    Is the PS store the only place you can download your free compensation games?

  • Feanor #4 1 year ago

    It's going to get hammered with people downloading their free games.

  • midnight_walker #5 1 year ago

    Rob, Bi-weekly means once every two weeks.

    What's twice a week then? (seriously)

    All I want is to download 3 100KB costumes and fatalities for Mortal Kombat. You lot can have your free games after I'm done. If you cunts bring the store down and stop me downloading those teeny tiny files, I will call Jay & Silent Bob to hunt you down.
    Edited by midnight_walker at 19/05/11 @ 16:21

  • X201 #6 1 year ago

    @link'sdad

    Almost certainly "Yes"

  • X201 #7 1 year ago

    @midnight_walker

    Twice weekly

  • menschenfracht #8 1 year ago

    The Merriam-Webster definition of biweekly is:
    a. Occurring twice a week
    b. Occurring every two weeks.

  • el-bandito #9 1 year ago

    bi·week·ly –adjective
    1.
    occurring every two weeks.
    2.
    occurring twice a week; semiweekly.

  • Darren #10 1 year ago

    Why only update the store once a week anyway? Microsoft update the Marketplace whenever something new is released, such as a demo or video, and only limit XBLA titles to Wednesday updates.

  • mythmaker1977 #11 1 year ago

    Bi-weekly can mean either every two weeks or twice a week in the UK. Which is why it is recommended to use 'fortnightly' for every two weeks and 'twice-weekly' for twice a week and avoid 'bi-weekly' altogether.

  • dadrester #12 1 year ago

    might see me monstar on there soon then.

    /shameless plug

  • Sodding_Gamer #13 1 year ago

    Bi-Winning

  • Jolly_Armadillo #14 1 year ago

    I demand you rush it online this weekend so I can spend the whole of next week complaining when things go wrong!

  • captain_Carl #15 1 year ago

    Good. I need to buy stuff, it's been too long. My addiction to spending money on games on PSN needs satisfying.

  • X201 #16 1 year ago

    @menschenfracht
    @el bandito

    All style guides will tell you to avoid using bi-weekly in the UK due to the bi- prefix being associated in normal use to "alternate" i.e biannual, bicentennial etc

    Twice weekly, or fortnightly should be used instead.

    Its fine to use it in that manner in North American English.

  • celery7 #17 1 year ago

    This announcement bricked my PS3

  • X201 #18 1 year ago

    @Darren
    Sony update it outside of Wednesday's as well.

  • jonsaan #19 1 year ago

    Do or do not. There is no try.

  • ZizouFC #20 1 year ago

    I want the LA Noire DLC tomorrow!

  • repeater #21 1 year ago

    Despite all the bickering about semantics in the comment field, the content of this article has made me feeling a bit buy-curious.. :)

  • thiagots85 #22 1 year ago

    ... And then, PSN will go down for another time... Good thing that I'll be able to do my postponed work with that time... MAG is really stealing my time and I blame SONY...

  • HyperTails #23 1 year ago

    At last! I have a Battle Code to redeem here...

    And I can grab that Crysis 2 map pack, providing anyone else does.

  • vmanb #24 1 year ago

    Nevermind playstation store i've still not been allowed to even change my password yet FFS. 4 Days waiting for reset email and now thats finally arrived the sony password reset webpage is still down for maintenance. There taking the piss now with this, 1 whole month with no online, fucking joke

  • Teamallstar #25 1 year ago

    Sony translation... PSN Store will re-open sometime after May, for two hours before it is "hacked", has a weakness exploited, crashes, purchases a full double page spread in the Sun Newspaper to publish randomly selected customer credit card details and finally destroys the internet.

    So, i think we can all look forward to that.

  • CloisterBlack #26 1 year ago

    How many GBs are the free games? Say, Infamous?
    I am legitimately worried that one month may be not enough to download them with a 2MBps connection if they are more than 20GBs, each.

    I don't recall having downloaded anything of that size so I don't know how much time it will take.
    Edited by CloisterBlack at 19/05/11 @ 17:17

  • Murton #27 1 year ago

    Is it just me or are the EG staff making a lot of article amendments this week after seeing the comments? Could it be that they're listening to us and trying to up their game?

    /checks today's headlines. apparently not.

    On topic, this is good news. I've got a couple of demos from before the outage that I would like to upgrade to full versions and a shedload of DLC to redownload after fitting a new HDD. And I'm sure people would like to claim their compensation freebies too.

  • Bigglesworth #28 1 year ago

    @CloisterBlack

    inFamous: 6.88GB

  • CloisterBlack #29 1 year ago

    @Bigglesworth
    oh, thank god, nowhere near to what I feared it would be.

    on a side note, no, it wasn't so hard, thank you google for making me feel stupid :p
    Edited by CloisterBlack at 19/05/11 @ 17:55

  • Bigglesworth #30 1 year ago

    ;)

  • reeferchief #31 1 year ago

    Lol had it been Heavenly Sword you might struggle, I think that was about 10gb's just for the uncompressed audio.:D

  • Mister-Wario #32 1 year ago

    In a way, I'm glad it's returning when it is since I have no idea if my internet connection still works at Uni. So if it doesn't I can simply take my PS3 home.

  • Arkwright #33 1 year ago

    Three scam emails using my PSN details arrived in my inbox today. Cheers Sony!

  • Lord_Gremlin #34 1 year ago

    I hope that mean 24 for EU region.

  • jamesi #35 1 year ago

    I find it incredable that ps store is still down after all this time beyond a joke and i never even use my ps3 online