The Sony PlayStation network fell from Friday to Saturday in the evening. By exceeding 24 hours, it was one of the longest unplanned failures of a gigantic video game network. The failure was extensive, including PSN account management, social functions, PlayStation store and many others. However, when the service returned online, information about the reason (not to mention the correction) remained unclear.
Late Saturday night, a spokesman for Sony Interactive Entertainment, replied to Polygon’s request for a comment from the following statement: “Network services are fully recovered from the operational problem. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service. “
The statement is based on a delicate, blunt update of the company from Friday. Shortly after the failure, the official ASKPLAstation X account sent: “We know that some users can now experience PSN problems. For more information: https://status.playstation.com. “
At 15:00 et on Saturday, the X account published a message Promoting the M.2 SSD extension In the case of PS5 – presumably planned publication this weekend. Otherwise, the account was hushed. At 18:50 ET Sony was still to provide additional brightness – causing the concern of some PlayStation owners who remember Infamous Sony Pictures Hack in 2014. At BlueSky Tom Warren from The Verge he wondered – in the absence of a Sony comment – if DDOS attack may be guilty.
PSN bricja can be monitored PSN Sony status page. At the time of publishing this story, all functions are marked as online. Down It also provides real -time status based on user reports. Reports about user resolution failures reached the peak yesterday in slightly less than 70,000 reports.
The would -be players shared their frustrations on the internet, with comments they count well in thousands or even tens of thousands, as you can see in this Reddit thread, where “PlayStation Network Down“It remains the most vital topic for the day.
Of course, it all fades compared to 23-day rest in 2011 (!), Which was unforgettable enough to earn 3000-lone Wikipedia entrance In detail, describing the misfortune. Although this failure was the eminent result of Hack, which revealed personal data for about 77 million PSN accounts, the next breaks were more anodyne by nature with a slight explanation of the lack of disclosure of this service were restored.
Update 1 (13:00 et): A report from PSN failure from the mainstream publication has been added.
Update 2 (14:30 et): The latest message from the official X account was recorded.
Update 3 (18:50 ET): History and header have been updated to notice that the PlayStation network has returned to the internet.
Update 4 (2:00 et): The story has been updated about commentary from PlayStation pr.
