A significant outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Saturday has left tens of 1000’s of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.
“We’re aware some users is perhaps currently experiencing issues with PSN,” PlayStation said on its social media platforms, confirming users’ mounting complaints across the globe.
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Reports of connectivity issues spread quickly across social media, with users frustrated by error messages and login failures.
“PSN down on a Friday night is criminal,” a London-based user named Ramos wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Based on the Downdetector outage tracking site, users began to report issues with PSN late Friday.
Shortly after, Sony responded to users’ concerns, confirming the issues without providing details on the possible reason for the outage.
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, in addition to PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct.
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