Great, Now the PlayStation Network Is Down Too

This has been a harsh week for anyone trying to play game on-line . Sony ’s PlayStation internet began experiencing issues Friday good afternoon , and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on thePSN status page . The outage comes just one day after the tantamount service for Sony ’s competitor Microsoft , Xbox Live , went down forroughly six hourson Thursday .

The position Sir Frederick Handley Page for Sony ’s on-line gaming Robert William Service warns of issues affecting the PS Vita , PS3 , PS4 , and PS5 platform . It says the problem started on Feb. 26 around 6:33 p.m. with no timezone listed .

“ You might have difficulty launching game , apps , or electronic connection feature of speech . We ’re operate to correct the issue as soon as possible . Thank you for your forbearance , ” the page reads .

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We ’ve reached out to Sony for details about the outage ’s cause and scope as well as when players can look the issues to be break up . We ’ll update this blog once we bed more .

accord toDownDetector , instrumentalist began experiencing problem early Friday afternoon with report of issue impale throughout the evening and into Saturday good afternoon . AsEngadgetpoints out , the outage may be restrain to sure games : Players reported that on-line matchmaking seemed to be approachable for Fall Guys and Fortnite , but not for Minecraft , Destruction AllStars , and Call of Duty : Warzone .

This is n’t the PSN ’s first outage this month . It go down worldwide for just about an hour on Feb. 10,the Vergenotes . And of course , the PSN splendidly go down foralmost a monthback in 2011 after hacker exploited the service and expose user datum . Here ’s hoping this outage is just a rough patch as players flock to the service for the weekend .

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