(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Despite earlier reports claiming the PlayStation Network would be up and running by May 31, Sony has publicly denied the existence of any such deadline.

Earlier today, a Bloomberg report quoted Sony spokesman Shigenori Yoshida as saying that though the company is "uncertain when it can resume ... services," the plan is to have the firm's flagship online service up and running no later than May 31.

Since that time Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold has asserted that there is no such deadline in place and that no new information exists on when the PSN will be able to resume service.

For those keeping score at home the PSN has been offline for nearly three weeks since the April 20 attack in which hackers broke into Sony's PlayStation Network/Qriocity system, compromising reams of valuable user information and forcing the electronics giant to pull down its entire online gaming infrastructure in the name of security upgrades.

Sony has recently stepped up its efforts to patch holes in its network, but given the historical persistence of the hacker community and its seeming blood oath to do as much damage to Sony as possible, the firm's refusal to commit to a deadline on the PSN's resurrection comes as no surprise.

Still, one hopes the company has some sort of plan in place. The longer this outage rolls on, the more Sony loses face with an increasingly impatient playerbase. Are any of you still anxiously clutching a plush Crash Bandicoot and ticking off the days until you can once again browse the PSN store.

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Update
PSN Restoration Timeline Update
know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work through this process.
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Update
Sony has new update 3.61 today but psn is not online yet so it should be on in around 3 to 4 hours.
Alos the 3.61 has a error in the update because sony is woeking on it.
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i well keep you guys updated.

thanks for this man clears a lot up.

I just don't understand why they don't just allow regular online access for now and not Playstation Store access, so that way, they can presume their fixing of the issue while everyone can atleast play games online with others. & I'm giving them a deadline myself as to them fixing by May31st, or I'm callin it quits.

Hope that its sooner

Hopefully they are up by this weekend and we better get cross game chat or I'm gonna throw my PS3 right out the ****ing window!

Ur Welcome mate i hate seeing them threads saying psn down till 31st on May.

Of course they're denying it, they can't confirm shit when themselves don't know when it will be fully operational. ;|

they better get somthing going we want it up and running be this weekend.

thnx for update

:bat:What the hell. Is this stuff ever going to come back online i didn't buy this system to just play by myself.:bat: