PSN is down – multiplayer, game launching & stores affected on PS4 and PS5
The PlayStation Network is suffering a major server outage, knocking PS5 and PS4 gamers offline overnight, and with no indication from Sony of when and how this will be resolved.
The PSN Service Status page shows the breadth of the problem for PlayStation gamers, with account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video and the PlayStation Store all affected – PlayStation Direct is fine, though. Issues affect all platforms – “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web” – and started at 2:21AM BST.
For the all-important gaming tab, it notes that “You might have difficulty launching games, apps or network features. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.”
Thankfully for gamers in Europe, we’ve been able to sleep through all of this, and most won’t get to play during work and school hours, however, 2:21AM for us is 9:21PM on the US East Coast, taking out online gaming for a whole evening in America.
Of course, you should still be able to play offline games, such as Astro Bot or God of War: Ragnarok, but if you wanted to hop into Call of Duty, for example, then you could have issues. If a game is in need of an update before launching, this could also throw an error WS-116522-7 – noted by The Verge – or games that need to authenticate while launching can end up hanging on their opening splash screen. Gran Turismo 7, for example, throws a “Something went wrong.” with code E2-CE210610.
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