Europe and PAL regions will be affected by the planned downtime

Dec 6, 2013 13:48 GMT  ·  By

The PlayStation Network in PAL regions (Europe and other several territories) will go offline on Monday, December 9, for a period of maintenance that should last around eight hours.

The PSN online service hasn't exactly withstood the launch of the PlayStation 4 in recent weeks, as Sony's online service was rather unstable and the company even had to turn off certain features in order to ensure that it remains operational.

Now, Sony has confirmed on the PlayStation Europe Twitter that the PSN in that region will go down for maintenance on Monday, December 9, at 4pm UTC and until 12am UTC on Tuesday, December 10.

No other details havebeen shared but, considering past offline periods, multiplayer and various services shouldn't be affected all that much, provided you have already logged in on the console at some point in the last few weeks.