This weekend has been a true test of strengths for everyone addicted to the PlayStation Network. Not only did it forcefully log out users from the service and preventing them to play online games, it also appears to have affected downloaded games and have removed hard earned trophies from users.

On the PlayStation blog Sony says to be working on the problem and states that it has only affected users of the original first generation big PlayStation 3′s and not the new slim versions.

Know that we have narrowed down the issue and have engineers working to restore service even as you read this. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and genuinely appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this.

The affected systems also have had their date set back to December 31, 1999 or January 1st 2000.

Speculations online suggests that it might not really be a fault of the PlayStation Network but something to do with the console’s internal hardware.

It remains to be seen how quick Sony can fix this embarrassing problem. Oh dear, Sony.