Playstation network outage leaves gamers worldwide frustrated
Is PlayStation Network down? It's not just you. We don't have good news if you planned to spend your Saturday gaming on your console.
There is a significant global outage of PlayStation Network. Thousands of users are complaining about issues with services such as the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Video, and even online gaming.
Reports from users on the Downdetector site indicate that platform issues began during the night of 7th to 8th February. Several hours later - just after 3:00 PM GMT - I still can't log into my PSN account, and the number of reports keeps increasing.
At 1:46 AM GMT, Sony informed users about "possible issues for some users" via the X service. For over the next 13 hours, no new message appeared.
The PlayStation Network outage has affected at least some users of PS5, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, and PS Portal consoles, cutting them off from network services. Problems also occur on the website and mobile applications. While the PlayStation Store can be browsed, adding a game to the cart or even attempting to log in results in an error message.
At the time of publishing this article, the number of reports from the USA is over 5,900, from Spain over 800, from France over 3,700, and from Poland over 1,400.
Update 4:17 PM
After 4:00 PM, the number of outage reports in Poland remains high (approaching 1,500 reports). Sony's post on X regarding "possible issues for some users" has already gathered over 34,000 comments.
