Heads up, PlayStation owners: Sony plans to bring the PlayStation Network down on Monday, November 17 to “deploy a series of back-end improvements to the network.”
According to a notice on the PlayStation.blog, PSN will be unavailable for “approximately 6 hours” from 1PM to 7PM ET (that’s 18:00GMT to 00:00GMT, Tuesday morning for our friends in Europe). The good news is that if you’ve logged into PSN at any time between November 13 and November 17, you’ll still be able to play games online and use online apps like Netflix and Hulu during this maintenance period. However, PlayStation Home, the PlayStation Store and your console’s account management features will be unavailable.
This is where we cross our fingers and pray to the gods of tech support that nothing goes catastrophically wrong with these backend updates, as they come mere hours before the debut of a number of high-profile PlayStation 3 and PS4 games including Far Cry 4 and the re-release of Grand Theft Auto 5.
