Sindarion

A remastered Yakuza: Kenzan! using the Yakuza 6 engine would truly be a dream come true! Ishin is quite nice as well but it is the weakest of the pair.

yikes, and i thought having me 50MBps up and down was bad, but seriously, 7-19? I think it will work fine if you get a more decent connection.

im ran it smoothly while sipping a cup of tea eralier today downtown.
I Used my macbook 12" (which is way below the recommended specs with a 1.1ghz Intel Core M). Seems its runs quite nice, even on lowspec machines.

(I live in Sweden though, and we're quite spoiled with good quality high speed wifi hotspots all over the place.)

@Dodoo if you shut down the internet connection on your playstation all single player games will work (except the ones you're basically "renting" through the ps+ system)

@BIGBADB25 it's the same with Canada, they can't "fix" eastern Canada as ALL of canada uses the same login servers. Theres no such thing as a local login server just for you.
That said, Sony still haven't/can't fix this completely as they're still under attack.
Its starting to stabilise though so you'll probably get online just as most of us, in a couple of hours.

Works in Europe (same servers for all of Europe so it cat be different on a country-basis, only on a user level. i.e.: some get in some don't). Although the store seems a bit unstable atm. It'll probably balance out a bit more in a while.

darn, i was hoping for the winter-themes from the japanese store for the PS4.
Perhaps they'll show up here as well eventually...

It is quite funny (and sad) that people still don't understand what a DDOS attack is and why you can't just "fix" it on a server-level (actually, there is one way, which is to take the servers down til' the attacks stop, but i don't think the angry people here will like that for an answer)

I have a friend who's basically worked for 22 hours in a row trying to block the attacks on the ISP-level of things. I'm quite sure the people at sony hasn't gotten that much sleep either, probably swapping techies every few hours.

@ObviouslySheik it is quite amusing indeed.

no. its not "hacked" per se. its a overload type of attack.
The ones doing it are sending a lot of shit, they're not taking anything.

@proctor2121 this is not a official sony support forum. That said, the errors you're getting basically means what it says: your connection timed out due to the server dying from overload. i.e.. the problem we've been discussing here.

To put it even simpler: you managed to log in, then the server went offline. The server is offline due to the reasons several of us has mentioned above your post.

happy holidays anyways

@special_donkey the login servers AND the gaming servers are both affected as far as I've understood. Cant tell for sure since i can't login at all myself atm.

short version for time til' solution: until sony's techies has been in contact with the larger affected isp's techies and said isp's has blocked out the incoming traffic. PSN will be down. Its really hard to block it only on the level of the servers receiving the traffic at sony/akamai. Thus they almost certainly has to work on it with the isp's and the people running the backbones.
So its not only up to sony and/or microsoft technically speaking.
Im sure they're working as quickly as they can but these attacks combined with everyone spamming login-functions does put a waaaaay above hightide level of stress on the servers.

these attacks basically broke the dns-servers of all the isp's here in Sweden last time them lizards were at it. Many still have servers struggling with the load, even after patching and fixing their software. Some implement a temporary fix by shuffling people over to googles name servers which in turn puts a larger strain on them. Others just null route all the traffic so that no one reaches the ip's of lets say psn until after the attack has stopped and the other customers can still reach the rest of the internet so to say...
Basically it passes through and/or crashes already at the ISP level of things so that people don't even reach XBL nor PSN.