PSN is down again worldwide for 30 minutes of maintenance: Patience is a PlayStation virtue

Written by Matt Swider on May 15, 2011

PSN News: Sony attempts to clear the queue of password resets that PS3 gamers are sending to the server.

PSN is down again worldwide for maintenance

PSN is up, PSN is down, PSN is up and now it's down again. That's how it'll remain for the next 30 minutes, as Sony attempts to clear what it calls "a heavy load of password resets" on PSN. Naturally, the second that PS3 gamers were able to get online, they changed their PSN account passwords (read: How to Change Your PSN Password). But this wise security move has also flooded the company's online servers.

Many PS3 gamers have been unable to sign back in to PSN and have made their voices heard, from Facebook to Twitter. This has lead Sony to tweet: "We're experiencing a heavy load of password resets and will be turning off the services for 30 minutes to clear the queue." With more people than 77 million PSN accounts, the service has been unable to handle the massive amount of password resets even with Sony's phased global rollout approach for PSN's restoration.

Even if you haven't received an email from Sony about changing your password, it may actually your fault for once - or the fault of your ISP. Sony followed up the aforementioned tweet with: "If you've requested your password reset, it's taking time to clear all of the ISPs, so please give it a bit of time to reach your email." For once, the blame doesn't go to Sony if that is the case in your case.

Patience is a PlayStation virtue. Thirty minutes of maintenance isn't the end of the world (or, a game over, if you will), as all PS3 gamers been waiting for 24 days for the outage to be over and done with. Go to Gaming Target's homepage for more.