Sony PlayStation fans in the US and Europe were looking forward to playing several new PlayStation games, including Sony's first free massively multiplayer online game release, Thursday. What they got instead was a disconcerting error page.

playstation network down

           The official Sony blog says that, far from a momentary network hiccup, users should expect the site to be down for as long as two days.

            Though the service outage has clearly been a rough start for Sony's new online game, Free Realms, it has locked users out from playing many other Sony PlayStation games online, including four other brand new releases. Along with Free Realms, the outage coincides with the release of Mortal Kombat, Portal 2, SOCOM 4, and inFAMOUS 2's beta release. Users on Sony's blog page have been particularly vocal about not being able to play Mortal Kombat and the inFAMOUS 2 beta release. Dozens of other PlayStation games capable of network-play will be locked out for the next 24-48 hours.

           What makes this more frustrating to users is the possibility that the network error is due to an intentional hack of Sony's network. The Sony blog message reportedly addressed "the possibility of targeted behavior by an outside party," but has since removed any reference to being hacked.

Well, umh.. We all hope that Sony will solve this kind of problem quickly.
Good luck Sony...