If it reads October 13th on your calendar, then listen up. Parts of PSN will be down today for nearly 7 hours in order to allow Sony to “deploy a series of back-end improvements to the network.” The down time will mostly affect PS3 and PS4 users while Sony tweaks things on the back end, meaning that no patches or system updates will be required. Luckily for gamers, the down time doesn’t affect most of the major functions like multiplayer. After the jump, we detail the services that will be affected.

The October 13th PSN maintenance will kick off at 10am PT/1pm ET/18:00 BST. If you’ve been on PSN since October 8th on PS3 or PS4, online multiplayer and apps like Netflix and Hulu will function without any hiccups. Services that will be down no matter when you’ve logged in are:

• PlayStation Store
• PlayStation Home
• Account Management

PS4 users will also see the following services down:

• What’s New
• PlayStation Live
• Library

Certain functionalities of ‘Share’ will also be down though Sony didn’t outline the specifics so if you’re looking to create and share some content today, you may want to reschedule.

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[Via PlayStation Forums]