Sony PSN: To be Fully Restored This Week

Sony’s PlayStation Network will end its 11-week outage, as its service comes in full restoration in Japan this Wednesday. Last April 20, Sony PSN and Qriocity encountered a cyber attack, which compromised 77 million users’ private information and cost the company almost $70 million.

The company previously announced deadlines for recovery, including the April 21 statement that it can be a day or two before PlayStation Network gets fully restored. Sony Executive Deputy President, Kazuo Hirai, promised the services’ restoration by the end of the week on May 1. Then on May 14, Sony announced the first phase of PSN’s resumption. The latest announcement was made on May 30, wherein the company promised a full restoration by the end of the week.

However, the Sony PlayStation Network subscribers can only hope that this will be the company’s final announcement of complete restoration. In addition to this, the Welcome Back program was also extended until 12:00 pm today.

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PSN Downtime Costs Capcom Millions of Dollars

According to Street Fighter game developer, Capcom, the continued PlayStation Network downtime is costing developers and publishers hundreds of thousands. In addition to this, the current situation brings future projects at risk. Capcom’s senior vice president, Christian Svensson, revealed at the Capcom Unity forums that the PSN blackout costs the company a huge amount of money.

Yesterday, Sony cleared out that the PSN and its related services may not be fully restored until the end of the month.

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Sony Disputes Report About May 31 Deadline for PSN Restoration

After an announcement that Sony will be partially putting the PlayStation Network back online last week, it seems that nothing really happened. The past seven days just came and went, and the PSN services are still down. So when will Sony bring back the PSN online? The answer still hangs up in the air.

As of today, the company still doesn’t have a concrete timetable as to when its services will be back online. However, Sony spokesperson – Shigenori Yoshida – said that everything should be restored by the end of this month. Bloomberg even added that the company has set May 31 as the deadline to restore all PSN services.

But Sony disputed Bloomberg’s statement, and cleared out that the May 31 deadline is inaccurate and does not exist. The company doesn’t seem to established any deadline for the restoration of PSN, so the people still have to wait until appropriate security measures are in place.

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Xenogears Goes PSN-bound

Square Enix’s classic PlayStation-era RPG, Xenogears, is finally coming to the North American PlayStation Network. And according to the PlayStation Blog, the game is set to drop on the next PlayStation Store update on February 22.

For those who doesn’t know, Xenogears was first released in 1998, and has only been re-released once on the Japanese PlayStation Store ten years later. And now, the Xenogears is hitting the North American network! However, words on when the science-fiction console RPG will hit the European PSN is yet to be known. But in case the news come up, All We Like will surely keep you posted.

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Sony warning: Do not turn on your PS 3 until the PSN bug is fixed

Here is the latest info on PlayStation Network Status from the Playstation Blog:

“As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3.

We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system.

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