Major Sony PlayStation Network outage affects gamers around the world

Sony’s PlayStation Network faced a significant outage on Tuesday, leaving gamers unable to access their accounts and affecting gamers worldwide.

The outage began late Monday and continued into Tuesday morning. According to PlayStation Network’s website, the company acknowledged that “some services are experiencing issues,” and that players “might have difficulty” logging in, creating accounts, launching games or getting video content.

Although Sony quickly assured users that they were working to resolve the problem, no immediate explanation was provided.

“We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the company said.

The widespread frustration among gamers was reflected on social media and Downdetector, an outage tracker, where thousands of outage reports were filed within hours of the issue surfacing.

Sony updated its status page by Tuesday morning in the U.S., announcing that “all services are up and running.” The company has yet to offer further details about what caused the outage or on how to prevent such issues in the future.

Newsweek reached out to Sony via email on Tuesday morning for comment.

The Verge, a technology news website, reported on Tuesday that Sony’s PlayStation outage “lasted for around eight hours” but now “seems largely resolved,” though some users are still writing on social media about continuing issues.

Sony’s outage comes a day after service provider Verizon garnered nationwide headlines after it also suffered a major outage with users across the United States reporting service issues on Monday.

In response, Verizon on Monday said engineers have begun fixing the problem.

“Verizon engineers are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored. We know how much people rely on Verizon and apologize for any inconvenience some of our customers experienced today,” the company said on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday evening.

“We continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this issue.”

Downdetector reported Verizon users began indicating they were experiencing problems early Monday morning, including phones being “stuck on SOS mode.”

In an initial response, Verizon said shortly before midday Monday that its engineers were working on the issue. Nationwide regulator the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an investigation into the outage.

“We’re aware of a Verizon outage impacting customers in parts of the country. We are working to determine the cause and extent of these service disruptions,” the FCC wrote on X on Monday.

This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.