Since Friday night, Sony’s PlayStation Community has been down. At practically 24 hours, PSN is experiencing one of many longest unscheduled outages of a serious online game community. The outage is wide-reaching, together with PSN’s account administration, social options, the PlayStation Retailer, and extra.
But info on the trigger (not to mention the repair) stays obscure. Shortly after the outage started, the official AskPlaystation X account messaged, “We’re conscious some customers is likely to be at the moment experiencing points with PSN. For extra particulars: https://standing.ps.com.”
At 3:00 p.m. ET, the X account posted a message selling M.2 SSD growth for the PS5 — presumably scheduled to publish this weekend. In any other case, the account has been silent.
The PSN retailer outage may be monitored on Sony’s PSN standing web page. On the time of publishing this story, all options are marked as down. Downdetector additionally offers real-time standing based mostly on person stories. Because the day goes on and extra PlayStation house owners try and signal on to their accounts, user-submitted outage stories are growing, having peaked at just below 70,000 stories final night time.
Would-be gamers have shared their frustrations throughout the net, with remark counts properly into the 1000’s and even tens of 1000’s, as seen on this Reddit thread, the place “PlayStation community down” stays a high trending subject for the day.
In fact, this all pales compared to 2011’s 23-day outage (!) which was memorable sufficient to earn itself a 3,000-word Wikipedia entry detailing the calamity. Whereas that outage was famously the results of a hack, one which uncovered private knowledge for some 77 million PSN accounts, subsequent outages have been extra anodyne in nature with little in the best way of rationalization in need of sharing that companies have been restored. All eyes are on Sony for an replace.
Sony has been contacted for remark.
Replace (1:00 p.m. ET): Added protection of the PSN outage from mainstream publications.
Replace (14:30 p.m. ET): Famous the newest message message from the official X account.