Sony is warning on the PlayStation US Blog that the PlayStation Network service will be down on Thursday, the 20th January. The outage will run from 8AM PST (4PM GMT) through to 9PM PST (5AM GMT, Friday).
The blog states that the PlayStation Store will be unavailable, as well as online gameplay, Home, Music Unlimited & Video Unlimited services and all account maintenance services.
There are no other explanations for the maintenance given by Sony, nor is there any indication of whether there will be a firmware update or not after the outage.
