Yes, beginning at 8:00 AM PT (11:00 AM ET) today the PSN will be down for maintenance for four hours. You want to know why too?  Jeez, ok in lieu of the new 3.0 Firmware update, Sony will be preparing it’s network for the upgrade.  But there’s somewhat of good news that can come out of this.  If you’re logged in before-hand you will not be kicked off PSN and will continue to play online.  For those attempting to join online after 8 AM PT (11 AM ET), sorry… you won’t be able to play online games, download from store or anything else that requires you to login.

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[UPDATE 3] – The engineers have finished their maintenance, and applying the final tweaks. The Store should be functioning now as normal. Thanks again for your patience.

[UPDATE 2] – Sony has released a statement regarding the Playstation Store being down.  “We’re aware that some of you may be experiencing difficulty accessing the PlayStation Store at this time. We have a dedicated team working on it now and will let you know as soon as things are back to normal for everyone, both here and on the PlayStation Twitter account. We thank you for your patience, and hope to have the Store up for everyone shortly.” – Patrick Seybold, Director of Corporate Communications

[UPDATE] We received a message that now both PS3 and XBox 360 user’s are receiving issues on PSN and XBox Live while trying to download the Call of Duty Map Pack 1.

We’re getting some reports concerning PSN errors hitting some PS accounts today through the PS3. We’ve been told, since 2PM PDT (5PM EDT) some user’s have been receiving an error has occurred (80023102) code message.  With today’s release of Thursday’s PlayStation Store update, this issue could be related to all the new updates.  Other have reported, this issue is related to adding funds into the PlayStation Store wallet.

We’ll keep you posted as we investigate this issue…

Can anyone else please confirm, if you also are receiving an error has occured messages?  If you have an error, drop us a comment below…