With the launch of PlayStation 4 in our region only a few hours away, we wanted to give you a quick update on what to expect from PSN when you finally get your hands on your PS4.

Following the successful launch of PS4 in North America on the 15th November, we have seen an unprecedented influx of players onto PSN. When we launch in Europe on Friday, once again, we are expecting record sales and record numbers of people logging onto PSN at similar times, alongside the North American players already on PSN.

We want to make sure that your online experience is positive. To help ensure that this happens, we have made the decision to switch off a couple of features for European customers on day one. These features will then be switched back on a few days later, once the intensity of launch day calms down.

The features we are temporarily disabling are:

• What’s New – Discover and engage with all of your friends’ PS4 related activity

• Content Information Screen – See friends’ activity and information specific to the title you are looking at

Not to worry, all of the other features of PSN will be fully available on day one. You’ll be able to play online multiplayer games with friends and your gaming community, get trophies, make friends and share videos and live broadcast your games so you can have a great online gaming experience.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/11/28/psn-on-playstation-4-at-launch/

It's gonna be a bloodbath on PSN, hope I will be able to log, download the firmware update and MAYBE even download PS+ games

Good of them to try and not have the same issue twice. Goof move from sony :)

wont be needing those things right away so if it helps in any way then thank you sony.. i plan on going all digital from day 1 so i hope it is smooth.. :)

I was just about to say something bad but then I saw it's only temporary. Instead of bad, this is smart and not a big deal. It's not like those two are crucial features.

Trust me, you guys wouldn't even get much use out of these things the first day if the North American launch was any indication. My What's New panel and the live tiles for the games didn't even work consistently until about two days or so after launch. Better to not stress the servers with things that are just nice additions and not necessary.

...so another million+ units this friday. ;)

I'm good with this, I doubt I would be using those features anyway ever

I just want to be able to get the console working and update my games (AC IV to 1080p!)

To prepare for the worst (being a PSN meltdown) I have downloaded the newest SW update onto a memory stick better safe than sorry lol

Black Friday + Europe launch = ???