- Sony says the network is "experiencing issues" and that they are working on it

- all major services are down for both PS3 and PS4 and web services

- Sony said "engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible"

https://status.playstation.com/en-us/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/psn-down-playstation-network-breaks-for-first-time-in-2016-as-sony-acknowledges-service-is-a6796431.html

Is you service down or are you the chosen one?

Sony files trademark for 'Days Gone'

Sony's CEO addresses the situation:

We decided to help customers whose New Year’s Resolution is to play less games and do more exercise by taking PSN offline

— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) January 4, 2016

That's so annoying. I was too busy to play yesterday . Now that I have some free time, the PSN is down.

There's always single player.

It is surprising.
The hackeres tried and failed many times when Sony and the servers was under the highest pressure from millions of new users in the holiday period.
Why fail now? Maybe they need a bit of stress relief?

Vita master race :B

Damn.. I actually walked to my router to reset it... Damn you Sony for making me walk!

This is the first downtime of the year people, hurry up and turn your PlayStations before you miss it.

Refresh. :B

It's been partially down for close to 3 hours now. People are affected nationwide from what I read - what I do find interesting, is the fact that I can still stream to twitch from my PS4 but can't access the servers to CoD.