It might not have been flawless but it definitely worked a lot better on PS3, that's for sure. There were much better PS+ offerings back then as well.

PSN imo takes a lot more hacker hits than any other console... the more popular you are, the biggest target you become ...also this is a stopple for all the lame supporters of "all Digital and 24/7 internet connected future" ....

ddos attacks are hard to defend against so i'm not sure how that can be addressed but it impacts others not just sony. i believe this is the number one priority out there and even this site has now tried to align itself with outside support to help this issue.

what isn't acceptable is the answer to due to popular demand. simply unacceptable to have a paid service buckle under heavy use. this is an area sony needs to fix immediately by investing more into their infrastructure. it happened quite frequently on the ps3 when new games came out, especially popular ones to have online issues until things settled down. apparently it still happens on the ps4 and now that they charge it needs to be dealt with.

sony made huge improvements on the store front for the ps4. on the ps3 it's still slow as molasses and cumbersome to navigate. one thing we still don't get a proper explanation on is why does sony have to shut down part and at times all of the services for regular maintenance? this has been going on since psn started and still goes on. to me it sounds like their infrastructure was poorly conceived from the start and now that it's a paid service it should not go down at all.

Yeah that list shows that it hasn't gone down that often and to be fair I game a heck of a lot and could still play online during the short outages in the past few weeks, sure sometimes I had to try to login 2 or 3 times and the PS App on my iPad couldn't log in, etc., etc. but I could still at least play.

Should they try to minimise this stuff? Of course they should, I rather have everything working 24/7, 365 days a year but stuff happens, I don't see reason for much outrage there.

The download speeds on the other hand are really not related to people's connections, I have a 200/20mbit connection and sometimes (a lot of the times actually) a 2GB update takes 4+ hours which is odd to say the least. Especially odd when you consider that fiddling with the network settings can help for a while until it doesn't or trying to pause the downloads for a bit and then resume them can also help.

And there are other issues, like the store not always loading for me on the PS4 which can be annoying at times.

All in all I don't see a reason to pick up my pitchfork just yet as some people already seem to have done...

That is a sensible solution but my PS3 is packed away in a box upstairs, I like to keep my TV cabinet in my Living Room tidy with just my one console of choice alongside my sky box and Blu-ray player.

I don't understand why it is not possible to download video content to the PS4 when it was possible on PS3 (especially purchased content).

I rent movies quite regularly and it hasn't been an issue so far because we generally browse the store, rent the movie and watch it there and then.

But I find it unacceptable that having purchased content, my ability to enjoy it is at the mercy of PSN and my internet connection.

It's not just your connection that determines maximum speed, servers also have to be connected to the internet somehow. You have the problem when your max download exceeds the servers max upload, if you have a really good connection you hit this limit a lot. Connections don't match your speed they just allow you to downoad up to their upload limit, whatever that may be either physically or deliberately capped per connection.

A 2GB update can take 4 to 12 hours for me to download which is ridiculous considering my connection speed is 200mbit down and 20mbit up. I can normally easily download at my max speed from other sources but the PS4 is slooooooooooow.

Not always though, sometimes when I pause a download and resume it it will go faster, at other times I have to change at least something in the manual network settings like DNS, MTU, etc. I feel it doesn't matter what, just that you change something so you somehow get connected to a different server and suddenly the speeds improve 10 fold. A day or longer later and it's back to a snails pace, then I revert back to the previous settings and suddenly that is now faster.....

There's something off...

My only other issue I have is the store doesn't load at all sometimes which is also a known issue, it's weird, not a huge deal breaker but still an annoyance.

Other then those things I'm practically on the PS4 whole days, every day and haven't had issues with not being able to play online except during Christmas last year...

Thank you Lemoncake. I was starting to consider that after I submitted the above comment.

Does anyone have any idea what the PSN upload speeds are? or whether they are capped?
I know for a fact they at least match or outpace my download speeds but that wouldn't be hard.

"A 2GB update can take 4 to 12 hours for me to download" - That's crazy, there has to be something else going on there though, surely?
I'll generally download 2GB in under an hour.

Wow, so you can download faster than your connection allows you to? Incredible!

Anyhoo, it IS PSN, I have 200mbit down and 20 up and the download speeds on PSN are incredibly slow most of the times (like 500KB/s at times)...

I have a 10Mbps up/down connection and I download everything from PSN with no problem as they are very fast. I'm not doubting you or anything but seriously, how the hell do you only get like 500kbps down on PSN with your 200Mbps connection? I'll do a speedtest on my PS4 after this and put a screenshot as proof.

Ya I guess its longer than that. I should have said I'm playing a game within an hour because it will let you start playing before it's fully downloaded. Any way I hardly ever have issues with PSN. Been a fantastic service.

One game that Sony payed $200 million for. lol
Also, you sure were quick to get triggered. Maybe your the one who needs a hug?

War is causing gas prices to rise. Transport of everything requires gas so the prices of those items go up as well. So it does have an impact

The blockage of the Straight of Hormuz due to the US-Iran war has affected raw components used in semi-conductor manufacturing such as bromine, aluminum, and helium. Iran had attacked the liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in Qatar which is a large producer (1/3 globally) of helium which is used in semiconductor etching. So it's the both the war and the RAM crises.

The gaming world would be

Yes very much so

Nah, I never said first-party was enough. I said it’s the ‘best way’ to drive gamers to your platform. 3rd-party is a free-for-all and there’s no guarantee that gamers will use your hardware to play the game. If you want to push your own software and/or hardware you need first-party, or at least exclusive deals with third-party studios.

How can you even see him being "emotional" in that comment?

If anything, you're the emotional one, constantly trying to go at anyone that says anything against Microsoft. So when you call him emotional, it comes off as deflection

No, its dead...

I own an XBSX & I can say it's becoming irrelevant out of the 3 current consoles.