PSN is down!
Many PlayStation 3 owners across the world have found themselves unable to connect to the PlayStation Network online service since Sunday, while their consoles’ internal dates have been reset and several games have started outright crashing.
Attempting to connect to the PSN results in failure with an “8001050F” error message, meaning all forms of online functionality are wholly unavailable.
The new PlayStation Slim is unaffected, according to Sony social media manager Jeff Rubenstein on the PlayStation.Blog, but it seems all other models are vulnerable–including the debug consoles used by developers, which Develop reports “have been thrown into a rebooting cycle, due to an endlessly-looping error message.”
Rubenstein writes, “know that we have narrowed down the issue and have engineers working to restore service even as you read this,” without giving any insight into what is responsible. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and genuinely appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this.”