Lengthy PSN Maintenance to Affect GT5′s Online Services, March 4th/5th

Other March 4th, 2012 by Jordan

Sony has announced a lengthy scheduled maintenance event for the PlayStation Network. The downtime begins at 20:00 UTC/GMT today (March 4th), and is expected to last more than 14 hours, until approximately 10:00 UTC/GMT on Monday, March 5th (convert this to your local timezone here).

When the maintenance period begins, all players will be disconnected, and cannot sign back in to Sony Entertainment Network services until the maintenance is complete. Although the announcement is currently only posted on Sony’s North American PlayStation website, other regions, including Europe, should expect to be affected as well. For specific information on the maintenance status, keep an eye on PlayStation’s Twitter feed.

Of course, this also means Gran Turismo 5‘s online services will be inaccessible during this time, so plan any online scheduled online racing events accordingly. As always, feel free to pass the time in our forums while you wait!

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  1. March 6th, 2012 at 11:15 am - #
    ripcurl

    anyone have any news on what the update will be for?

  2. March 6th, 2012 at 10:27 am - #
    SmileyOr1

    I’m noticing quicker log ins now.

  3. March 5th, 2012 at 5:03 pm - #
    iDomBMX

    14 hours? Wow it must be really hard on you guys

    Not being able to play PS3 for 14 hours…

  4. March 5th, 2012 at 4:37 pm - #
    TeamCZRRacing

    Finally! Back up on Saturn. :)

  5. March 5th, 2012 at 1:27 pm - #
    Foxiol

    By the way. Turn 10 and EA made some kind of “pact” for EA let Turn 10 having Porsches at their game. And they are going to release a May DLC with 30 Porsches classics and new ones. And they are going to release a new Forza game but not made by Turn10 called “Forza Horizon” also including Porsches.

    Turn10 is desperate for catch more fans or ex-fans (from GT series of course) and people who want special cars not only an entire game. To me having or not Porsche is not a problem…i don´t care but yeah i like the idea of having it but in GT5 no in other game. So in my case i prefer to wait even for GT6 and hopefully finally having Porsches. BUT again…there are more important things in the game itself or features needed than cars.

    The only good thing here from having Forza as a competition is that PD is going to open his eyes and make things better for us.
    And also new DLC from Forza and we are just in time for GT5 DLC too. Sometimes soon we´ll here some news from Jordan right here.

    Be patient people.

  6. March 5th, 2012 at 1:05 pm - #
    GTO_VR4

    Its back online for neptune residents

  7. March 5th, 2012 at 10:23 am - #
    SmileyOr1

    It’s back up as of this morning in the USA west Coast.

  8. March 5th, 2012 at 7:27 am - #
    AnTiheLT

    Its finished here in Denmark

  9. March 5th, 2012 at 7:10 am - #
    batman346

    here in greece it is supossed to finish 12 o clock and now it is 2 oclock and nothing WTF/././././,/.,/.,/,/,/.

  10. March 5th, 2012 at 7:04 am - #
    Froudeybrand

    Back online for Aussies

  11. March 5th, 2012 at 1:26 am - #
    Slashfan

    I can’t sign in. Somethin about the master account holder and terms of use. I’m the owner.

  12. March 5th, 2012 at 1:07 am - #
    Catlin

    Yep,back online for me too.

  13. March 5th, 2012 at 12:54 am - #
    AnthonyG

    me to

  14. March 5th, 2012 at 12:53 am - #
    lldantell

    I’m back online

  15. March 5th, 2012 at 12:15 am - #
    DriveTheGuard88

    Had to postpone my leagues season opener :(

  16. March 4th, 2012 at 7:31 pm - #
    rockstar95

    That’s good news. Thought something was wrong with my ps3.

  17. March 4th, 2012 at 7:29 pm - #
    Bklingaman

    So this is why i can’t play gt5? well, i guess this means *shudders* BF3 campaign….

    • March 4th, 2012 at 8:03 pm - #
      MustangCobra95

      Hahaha! I got a good laugh out of this comment!

    • March 4th, 2012 at 8:35 pm - #
      Projectoutlaw

      Time to fire up the 360 for awhile.

    • March 4th, 2012 at 10:35 pm - #
      Lambofanghini

      ^Ditto. Time to finish Halo Anniversary 3D. Just have to blow up the starship reactor on Legendary. Gonna take a while.

    • March 4th, 2012 at 11:48 pm - #
      MyFavoriteGame

      BF3 campaign aint so bad….and the fact that I’ve had the game for 4 months and haven’t completed it doesn’t invalidate my statement in any way

  18. March 4th, 2012 at 7:10 pm - #
    Evo_X

    Nope. Sorry Jordan! Lol

  19. March 4th, 2012 at 7:00 pm - #
    redgray99

    so is 10:00 gmt 5:00 est?

  20. March 4th, 2012 at 6:15 pm - #
    neil1297

    Funny thing about the maintenance is that it started 3 hours ago where i live and i am still playing online

    • March 4th, 2012 at 6:21 pm - #
      biftizmo

      I’ve been B-Spec’ing since all day…still on… Maintenance?

    • March 4th, 2012 at 6:57 pm - #
      ENTERSANDMAN13

      as soon as you sign out you wont be able to sign in again.

    • March 4th, 2012 at 11:37 pm - #
      GRAFX21

      Good time to get some Skyrim playtime in.