Since switching my media center (a central location of all ourfamilies media such as pictures, videos and music) to the PS3... we have grown to use the system as a central hub to access our movies and games.  As of Sunday that all came to a stop... (well except for the access to the movies :) )

As indicated by various reporting entities and first hand encounters... the Sony Network which is the backbone of the Playstation infrastructure has been down since 2pm on Sunday afternoon 2/28/2010.

SEE: http://www.prlog.org/10553728-ps3s-struck-down-in-worldwide-outage.html

It appears to be pretty serious given the ramifications of lost data in games and other applications on the effected systems...

Read More Here... http://consumerist.com/2010/03/sony-takes-play-out-of-playstation-3-with-global-outage.html