The PlayStation community has been utterly borked for 16 hours and counting on the time of writing, first going offline at 1 AM CET / 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT on February 8. Sony has but to offer a proof for the outage, which impacts PSN logins and providers throughout all platforms, together with PS5, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, and PC.
Sony’s solely official touch upon the matter has been a tweet from the Ask PlayStation assist account that reads, “We’re conscious some customers may be at the moment experiencing points with PSN,” with a hyperlink to a community service standing web page that reviews outages within the following providers:
- Account Administration
- Gaming and Social
- PlayStation Video
- PlayStation Retailer
- PlayStation Direct
A group word on the Ask PlayStation tweet factors out that it fails to seize the complete extent of the outage: “some” customers versus, apparently, actually each consumer. The group word additionally alleges that this can be the results of a DDoS assault, citing Sony assist messages shared elsewhere on social media, however that clarification has but to be confirmed. A pinned moderator touch upon the PlayStation subreddit’s megathread on the difficulty notes that there are a variety of customers spreading “incorrect service info, rumors, and outright lies” within the absence of a full accounting from Sony.
This can be a growing story.
