Sony’s PlayStation Network was down for hours on Tuesday, frustrating gamers around the world who complained they couldn’t log in to their accounts.
PSN said on its website that “some services are experiencing issues” and that players “may have difficulty” logging in, creating accounts, playing games or accessing video content.
She added: “We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible.” Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Data from Downdetector, an outage tracker, showed that reports first spiked late Monday and continued into early Tuesday with thousands of reports filed hours after the issue first appeared.
It took nearly eight hours, affecting nearly every service that required a PSN login.
A technical bug in the official news feature on the PS5 console has since been resolved. There have been no changes to the way game news is displayed on PS5.
It also came shortly after a recent update caused large ads to be displayed on players’ home screens – a bug that the official PlayStation
The outage was mostly resolved by morning in the US and Canada, and PSN’s website said early Tuesday: “All services are up and running.”
