Update: Sony has temporarily disabled the choice to redeem vouchers through PlayStation Network in a bid to be certain a smoother service.
“To minimise the inconvenience we’ve got suspended the ‘redeem voucher’ functionality whilst we investigate further. Unfortunately which means money cards, product vouchers, PlayStation Plus vouchers, PS3-PS4 upgrade vouchers and another vouchers for digital content don’t seem to be redeemable at this stage,” said Sony. “Other PSN features comparable to log-in, online multi-player gaming, PlayStation Plus trial, PS Store (excluding voucher redemption), trophies, messages, friends etc. are all available.”
Original story: PlayStation Network in Europe has collapsed under the load of users trying to connect their new PlayStation 4 consoles to the service, following the launch of the machine inside the region today.
The service is struggling to deal with the traffic generated by the quantity of individuals returning home from an afternoon at work/school armed with the recent console. An identical thing happened when the machine launched within the US earlier this month.
“We’re aware some users are experiencing issues logging into PSN on PS4 because of the heavy traffic we’re receiving, we’re investigating,” said Sony at the PlayStation Europe Twitter account.
“Thanks in your patience.”
Sony attempted to reduce the capability outages yesterday by disabling the What’s New and Content Information screens on PlayStation Network in Europe, but Twitter and the Sony forums are currently awash with tales of folks unable to glue.
One of the key things people should be purchasing for is the initial update for the PlayStation 4, which enables most of the machine’s services and contours. Anyone trying to manually install the machine’s day one update can do from Sony’s site, provided they’ve some USB storage handy.
The 1.51 update weighs in at 308mb, so any stick made within the 21st century should suffice.