PlayStation Network outage hits gamers across the world
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Your support makes all the difference.A major outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Saturday has left tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.
Reports of connectivity issues spread quickly across social media, with users frustrated by error messages and login failures. About 71,000 gamers reported the outage to PlayStation’s website.
“We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” PlayStation said on its social media platforms, confirming users’ mounting complaints around the globe.
“PSN down on a Friday night is criminal,” a London-based user named Ramos wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
According to the Downdetector outage tracking site, users started to report issues with PSN late Friday.
Shortly after, Sony responded to users’ concerns, confirming the problems without providing details on the possible cause of the outage.
When will PlayStation be back up?
The Sony website confirmed problems with its PlayStation Network services. The PlayStation support webpage said “some services are experiencing issues,” including its account management and gaming and social services, as well as PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct.
Last October the PlayStation network was down for several hours. The problems came soon after PlayStation pushed out an update that added large ads to people’s home screens. Some players feared that it was a move to add more marketing onto the console – but Sony said the changes were the result of a bug.
In 2011, “external intrusion” forced the PSN to shut down for 23 days.
There were reports of it coming back online as of 3pm GMT but this wasn’t confirmed.
Fans have taken to social media to complain about the outage.
One wrote: “Shall I start a petition to cut PlayStation plus price off the back of this for their yearly subscription Reply retweet and like and I will get it started. @PlayStation we are coming for you. PlayStation network is still down not good enough. Everyone spread the word.”