PlayStation’s Day-Long Outage Has Gamers Asking What’s So Wrong with Discs
PlayStation’s online services, including the PlayStation Store and some game servers, have been down for at least the last eight hours. PlayStation’s status page still says the PlayStation Store is on the fritz. While Gizmodo was still able to access some PlayStation Network services, including the store, we spent nearly five minutes trying to join a match in Battlefield 6 before receiving an “Unknown Error” report, so your mileage may vary.
- ▪PlayStation’s online services, including the PlayStation Store and some game servers, have been down for at least the last eight hours.
- ▪PlayStation’s status page still says the PlayStation Store is on the fritz.
- ▪While Gizmodo was still able to access some PlayStation Network services, including the store, we spent nearly five minutes trying to join a match in Battlefield 6 before receiving an “Unknown Error” report, so your mileage may vary.
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PlayStation’s online services, including the PlayStation Store and some game servers, have been down for at least the last eight hours. Gamers who are still very upset about Sony’s planned demise of game discs aren’t letting this outage slide.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000790566","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"gaming,playstation,playstation-5,sony","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); On DownDetector, thousands of users reported early on Friday that PlayStation Network seemed to be experiencing issues.
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