PSN is down, on Christmas Eve

[disolitude]

Pemalite said:

disolitude said:
Don't feel too bad. Nintendo Eshop has been down for 2 days now. I've been trying to download the Sonic Lost World Yoshi World level for 2 days...no dice.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/26/5245234/nintendo-network-outages-esho-nintendo-network-id-nnid

On the upside, Xbox Live has been working ok for me for the last 2 days. Is this the secret power of the cloud Microsoft has been bragging about all this time? Ability to stay connected for Christmas... :P

Not even Steam stood up to the Christmas rush once Valve announced Left 4 Dead would be free-for-everyone, that's on top of the Christmas sales rush.
And that network is easily larger and more robust than Live or PSN. (Mostly just Valves authentication servers that took the hit.)

Yeah not surprising. I for one usually save a few single player games for the christmas period. Depending on XBL/PSN to provide multiplayer entertainment over the holidays is like betting on the Washington Capitals to win the stanley cup. Sure, everything looks promissing during the regular season but the wheels come of as soonas round 1 of the playoffs starts...