If you’re like me, and you just got a PS4 because you F5’d the stock page for your local electronics retailer until you could send a retired family member to snatch a PS4 from the clutches of some other deserving gamer, you may be having some difficulty signing in to the Playstation Network.

I certainly was, until I came across the following thread on the Playstation Support Forum. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/i-cant-log-onto-my-acc-stuck-on-quot-please-wait-quot/td-p/42126099/highlight/true/page/4

The following directions seemed to work for me:

  1. Go to Settings > Initialize > Restore Default Settings
  2. Set up your PS4 again once it reboots
  3. Successfully sign in to PSN