PSN Is Down For Over 18 Hours, Fans Hope It's Not A Repeat Of The Great Outage Of 2011
The PlayStation Networkhas been down since at least 3 p.m. EST on February 7, and some fans are wondering if it's time to hunker down for a longer wait. As the PlayStation community settles in to wait for Sony to restore PSN service, stories have cropped up about the infamous outage of 2011, when PSN was inaccessible for a whopping 23 days.
Sony has not made any statements on the current outage, besides letting fans know they know it's happening. On the Ask PlayStation X account, the company states: "" before directing fans to the official PlayStation status page. At the time of this writing,all PSN capabilities are still down, and the outage seems to be affecting PSN worldwide.
Lucky for PlayStation users, a PSN account is not essential for using PlayStation consoles and fans can still play their offline games without issue. PSN is only required for any features that need online connectivity, including:
These functions are currently unavailable no matter how players try to access them. Attempting to sign into the PlayStation Store via website, for instance, currently results in a «503 Service Temporarily Unavailable» error.
Although offline games can still be played while PSN is down, fans who earn trophies while offline will need to sync their save data to the cloud from the game's options for the trophy to appear in their account once PSN is restored.
As fans wait for PSN service to be restored, some have taken to Reddit toreminisce about the last big outage that Sony had, back in 2011. Many fans have shared their experience with that time on a thread started by Reddit user Apprehensive_Cause67. Some seem surprised that the outage was «only» 23 days long, noting that it felt like months at the time.
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Redditor gendegree recalls another instance when a PSN outage hit hard: "." This attack happened in December of 2014, when the Xbox
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