PSN Finally Back Online, But Some Problems Persist After Biggest Outage Since 2011 | Push Square
Update #12 []: As compensation for the PSN outage, which resulted in both the PS5 and PS4 being unable to play online for almost 24 hours, Sony has pledged five days of free PS Plus service for all members affected.
Sony will add five days of service to your current sub
This will be automatically added to your account, so you don’t have to do anything to claim it. You can find more details through here.
Update #11 []: The PlayStation Network is finally back up and running. Well, mostly.
The all-important, official PSN Service Status page now says that the network is fully functional — hurrah! — but there are still numerous user reports coming in about being booted from various online games, and dropping connections when using online PS5 and PS4 features.
It sounds like the network's simply taking a bit of time to straighten itself out. After all, hundreds of thousands of users will have hopped back online within the last few hours — and that's going to put some real strain on Sony's servers.
We still don't know why the PSN went down in the first place — for a whole 20-ish hours, we should reiterate — but we're hopefully past the worst of it.
It'll be interesting to see whether Sony provides more information regarding the outage in the days to come. If it does, we'll be sure to bring you coverage.
Update #10 []: The PSN is finally starting to blink back into life, as reports of successful connection tests and login attempts flood social media.
Assuming this is the end of the outage, the whole thing lasted roughly 20 uninterrupted hours, stretching from 11pm GMT on the 7th February 2025 until 20:30pm GMT on the 8th February 2025.
Sony has not issued a statement on the downtime, and we still don't know what the actual cause was.
Update #9 []: It's now been close to 20 hours since the PlayStation Network first went down. And, as has been the case all day long, we're still waiting on official communication from Sony (outside of standard social media acknowledgements of
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