Sony Confirms PSN Down Reports, Affecting PS4 and PS3

Within the last fifteen minutes (at 10:30am PT/1:30pm ET), numerous people on Twitter and Reddit have reported that the PlayStation Network is down for them in locations all over the world, with some users reporting maintenance notifications.
- PSLS

[Relientk77]

I'm on right now

in The Northeast, USA

[JoGam]

I'm not. But whats crazy is I can see my friends online but can't play a online game.

[Nosred]

Dropped in here for me, Sony so bad, need to improve that PSN. Every month the same thing.

[uptownsoul]

It sucks that both PSN and XBL have been down lately…I mean lately, they both need to be more stable

[Majin-vegeta]

@Nosed yes I'm sure it went down for you lol you don't even own one.

It's up for me currently playing BF4.

[Ricegum]

Nosred

That's funny, my PSN hasn't been down since that New Years Lizard Squad rubbish. I think you might be over exaggerating a little.

[morganfell]

On right now in Far Cry 4 coop.

[Silly gameAr]

@Nosred There hasn't been any PSN problems for a while, though I don't think there is any PSN for imaginary Playstation consoles.

[Crimzon]

Sony says that the PSN is down, but Relientk77 says it isn't. I don't know who to believe!

[Spotie]

Sony says PSN is down for some, Crimzon doubts those with no problems.

[RIP_Cell]

yep good idea to have your network down when people have days off for the holidays Sony

[Gazondaily]

Yeah just on it now. You can see your friends online but can't play online.

[Kombatologist]

This is the problem I have with the digital age. We're at the mercy of these services if and when we want to download anything from our libraries.

I miss the days when I could just pop in a cartridge and play a game right away. And if I wanted to play with my friends, they were just a phone call away.

[Gazondaily]

@Kombatolagist

Funnily enough I was playing Mortal Kombat on PS4. All my games are digital so I didn't know have any issues in that regard.

You can still call your mates over and play? What's changed?

[Haru]

You know what's crazy? this website it keeps logging me out everytime i refresh, I have to login everytime I click on an article or go to the homepage this is crazy and stupid I hope they fix it or I won't even bother with this website anymore

[ABizzel1]

@crimzon

Must be region specific, because I'm playing Iron Banner right now in Destiny. Not everyone has an agenda, XBL is down for me though kicked out of IB on there and can't connect back.

Edit:

Apparently XBL has sign-in issues going on this weekend as well. Probably some new DDOS group.

XBL
http://news.yahoo.com/xbox-...

PSN
http://gamerant.com/psn-dow...

[GribbleGrunger]

@Haru:

I've PMed a mod about that very problem.

[Kombatologist]

@Septic

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. It doesn't make what I said any less true. The fact is, your entire digital games library is going to be inaccessible one day. I don't know about you, but that's a scary thought to me. Perhaps you don't see yourself playing those games 20 years from now, which is perfectly understandable. The thing is, I DO see myself playing those games 20 years from now. Not only that, but I see video games as art, and they should be preserved as such. P.T. is a great example of what can happen to a digital-only title. I know it was technically just a demo, but it was so much more than that. It's one of the greatest bits of video game horror I've ever played. Yet, unless you were fortunate enough to back it up before it was removed from the PlayStation Store, it can never be downloaded or re-downloaded again. It's gone forever.

As for what changed, well, there aren't many games these days that support split-screen or LAN. So unless we're playing a sports or fighting game, there's really no point in having my buddies come over to play something when today's games are designed to be played online.

[mrmonk]

yes its down for some depends what time you have been on from i have friends on yet i cant get on. its a pain in the ass to be honest it happens to often.well just watch some crap tv till its fixed lol.

[FITgamer]

Same just finished playing a few games on BF4.

Edit: Tried signing back in with no luck.

[PC_60]

Playstation guys salty

[FITgamer]

...now it's working again.

[MysticStrummer]

It was only down for about an hour for me, but this is still the top story in the PS4 section so I guess it's still down for many.

[UKmilitia]

i have been online all day but not actually playing online but i can see my friends playing games.
(i havent tried to play online as im smashing batman)

im in UK and its nice and sunny here anyway lately so downtime isnt an issue,only annoys me on cold winter nights.

[MrDead]

I'm not sure if it effected the UK as I haven't had any problems, been playing Pre-Sequal online from about 18:00, it's 22:21 now still no issues.

[URNightmare]

I just logged in to mu UK account with no problem but my account in the US is not working.

[JoGam]

Honestly man they are pissing me off with these outages. People are paying money monthly to play online and this is unacceptable.

[Volkama]

Totally nonacceptabable

Bah you edited out your unexeptionable, that's no fun.

[Thatguy-310]

Goes down and right back up . They tend to fix it really quick when you compare it to the ps3 days. The PSN isn't the only one that's been going down as of lately.

[JoGam]

Hey man I hear you but that doesn't help me. I pay my money monthly. Its one thing I have to deal with their schedule maintenance sessions but to deal with these outages on top of that is nonsense.

[uptownsoul]

@JoGam

You do know that Playstation Online play isn't inhibited during scheduled maintenance, right?

[JoGam]

@ Uptownsoul, I paid for Music Unlimited since day one. Yes I understand we now had Spotify which I also pay however when we have schedule maintenace I can NOT use any services which I pay for. For the record I could careless about some fanboy war, people assuming I'm trolling or anything else, but when it come to me paying money, I do not expect anything less than what I'm supposed to get.

[PurpHerbison]

PSN reminds me of my local ISP this generation. Pretty bad...

[frostypants]

You're paying a monthly rate for which you agreed to terms which explain that it will be down time to time...

[PurpHerbison]

Oh tell me more

[MysticStrummer]

"Honestly man they are pissing me off with these outages."

For me it depends on the reason for the down time. If it's the Loser Squad again or someone like them, I don't blame Sony nearly as much. Yeah I want Sony to keep hackers out completely, but most of the blame imo should be pointed at the hackers themselves. Too many large companies and even governments get hacked for me to place much blame on anyone but the hackers.

If on the other hand this current down time is because PSN couldn't handle holiday traffic, then it is clearly Sony's fault.

Sucks either way because I was looking forward to a lot of Elder Scrolls Online/Planetside 2 today and this weekend.

[LonDonE]

Its funny before this generation started i would of swore xbox live via the 360 was the superior service vs psn, and rightly so since the latter was a free service while live charges everyone.

But this generation everything is upside down!
I have both the x1 and ps4 and also a wii u.
I have seen loads of times when live was experiencing problems like the store wont load or the friends list is down etc
While psn has also had lots of problems and been down too frequently as has xbox live on xbox one for my liking.

The bottom line is both services need to get their ish together!!
These are supposed to be premium services which us gamers are forced to pay for just to be able to access and play online games via both the PS4 and X1.

Sadly both services are just not up to scratch in my opinion as supposed paid premium services.
Whats worse is the advertising LOL

I think what separates Microsoft and xbox live vs psn on ps4 is that Microsoft always get their service back up and running with minimum down time.
This is the truth any unbiased core gamer who owns all 3 consoles will attest to it.
See my avatar pic for proof.

Another problem is the psn down time for maintenance, why on earth is it Microsoft can do these things in the background without interruption to services while Sony still cant? just like the ps3 era.

The way i look at it, its Sony who are now charging for online on PS4 and so they more then ever need to prove to us gamers that the psn on ps4 is a premium service worth being paid for!
so far it has been terrible, and xbox live is also not as stable on xbox one compared to on 360.

Both companied need to sort this B.S out! its the dam weekend and people were expecting to chill out and play online after a hard week of work, but yet again sony fails allot of gamers!
People need to stop defending this lack lustre service just because it may be working for them this time and affecting others.

We as gamers need to speak up and let sony and ms know as paid for premium services this bs is not acceptable! steam is free on pc and is more reliable, AND ITS FREE!!!

[UKmilitia]

i pay for virgin media and it goes down sometimes.
my car breaks down sometimes
my mobile sometimes cant get signal

oh and sometimes i phone in work sick.(still paid)

we can all have our moments and no servce is 100% all day everyday(said some knob called kanye west)but it isnt the end of world and its been down less than what i would of classed as a better network(im a ps4 owner).

yes it needs upgrading but it isnt over night.

[RoseSapphire]

Take it up with the shitclowns that keep attack various websites and game servers.

[excaliburps]

Good: PSN hasn't been down as much.

Bad: Super bad timing to go down.

[yarbie1000]

Was down just a few days ago....

For the disagrees... I'm not even talking about the maintenance 4 days ago. Was down 7 days ago...
http://www.inquisitr.com/22...

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

No!

[yarbie1000]

No what? You're saying it wasn't down 7 days ago?

http://community.us.playsta...

http://www.shacknews.com/ar...

Guess all these people were very confused...I mean Official Playstation even acknowledged it. Not sure why people get so testy and sensitive when you point out things that are factual. Oh well :)

[GamingWithMack]

Always on Friday evenings in the UK. What am I supposed to do? Go outside?!

[JoGam]

LOL

[excaliburps]

Play with your Xbawks? xD

[poor_cus_of_games]

Yeah what was up with some of its services being down last Wednesday?

[Mr-Dude]

It's way to sweaty outside... (Netherlands)

Dam heatwave

[Dude Dutch]

Yup ik zweet peentjes hier...

Groeten

[LonDonE]

I know the feeling i swear it is absolutely BOILING in london!!
And whats worse is its ramadan now (where muslims fast for the whole month from sunrise to sundown with no food or water!

This heatwave is making fasting so much harder i swear i am struggling, real talk.

[scark92]

Don't do it! Brave the indoors! Outside is Suicide!

[mrmonk]

few beers and watch crap tv until its fixed lol thats what i decided to do

[ThePresentIsAgift]

Rofl, classic. You could order a pizza and watch a movie, invite someone round perhaps?

Or just Netflix it.

[KrystofKage1]

Play mobile games on your smart phone! According to the credible and very competent Peter Molyneux, they are the way of the future!

[REDDURT]

I am online playing drive club.

[JoGam]

I think its effecting some people. Everybody isn't effected.

[Dragonking007]

I just got off two or 3 games of gun game in cod aw

[Shadow Man]

Damn it! I got the day off and I was about to play the last of us online.

Hopefully this gets resolve soon.

[Mr-Dude]

I started playing it again last week after I got plat last year. I got instantly owned

[ShadowKing-]

in be for lizard retards take credit

[LgbtWarrior]

Ridiculous. I'm honestly surprised that they haven't been sued for how much it's been going down lately

[RAM0N]

Hmm dint knew it was down while playing

[TWB]

I havent seen many problems in during the last week but assuming the service started acting up more just recently, at least I was lucky enough to download one game for my PS3 before these problems became bad.

EDIT, these issues have to be somewhat regional.

[triple_c]

Honesty, I'm not sure why we pay to play online on PSN. It goes down more than it did when it was free last gen. It still performs like a free service. Sony seriously needs to consider investing the money that they're making off of PS + into their network.

[iTechHeads]

Who says they aren't? I highly doubt the PSN of today is the PSN of 5 years ago.

[travestyj]

They also didn't have to deal with DDOS attacks all the time with the PS3 as well.

[Mr-Dude]

Well I can get online, see my friends but most of my games are locked...

[_LarZen_]

I think I speak for everyone when I say that the crap Sony is calling for Playstation Network is in big need of change.

So sick and tired of this crap...

[travestyj]

Well fuck you DDoSers I'll be playing Batman anyway.

[yewles1]

Well that's perfect timing for NA, 4th of July weekend and all...

[sci4me]

I got kicked out while playing ESO and after that i cant connect to PSN but my son can keep playing and stays connected in the next room.. And because we have gamesharing i cant play any digital games since i need to connect to validate license... BAD!!!

[WellyUK]

PSN... Really is a facepalm in a nutshell. Unreliable as always.

[WellyUK]

people disagree? really you pay for this unreliable crap...

[ShadowKing-]

i dont think xbox live have been doing any better either, they are going through the same thing

[PistolsAtDawn]

Nah...it sucks when any network is down...and they will ALL have issues, it's the nature of the beast, but XBL is a better service. Not only is it actually down less, but when it is it affects less people and it's fixed much faster. Even the last time there was an issue it was proven it wasn't even MS's fault at all, yet they were still able to move service hubs around to get players back online in less than 20 minutes.

[ShadowKing-]

well whats to say this was not sony fault, no one knows for sure if this was even there fault, and when it comes to tech issues each one is different depending on how much time it takes to fix the issue.

the thing is you will never know what truly caused it, tech never release that info.

[JasonKCK]

Live was down to? Where is that article?

[Izzy408]

Not really. A few issues minor issues here and there but nothing bad enough to prevent users from playing online.

[MegaRay]

Even at PSN down times, Sony always leave Vita out :(

[_LarZen_]

Just imagine if Netflix had the same amount of downtime. People would never accept that. Why is it that console gamers do?

[MegaRay]

Because admitting PSN problems will give Xbox fanboys an opportunity to brag about Xbox live. Something no fanboy want LOL

[RiseofScorpio]

Wow PSN is down yet all you think of is the console wars. Fanboys SMH.

[kas777]

I don't think I will be renewing my plus. I think it's rediculous that every time there is an outage I can't play any of my digital purchases. They all show up as locked. This is why I prefer physical over digital. Not only that but PS Plus sucks nothing but crappy indie games. They seriously think people are going to buy into the all digital PS5 they got another thing coming to them. Their security has sucked since the PS3 and it will continue to suck BEYOND. I'm going to make believe this isn't happening right now because I would love to turn this console into a weapon right now and smash it over every bafoons head that is running things at Sony.

[BillytheBarbarian]

Noooooo! my madden ultimate team won't load!

[Captain_Wormy]

It's down for me here in California. Won't let me sign into my PS3.

[scark92]

Yeah I cannot Sign-In! :(

[Iknoweverything]

Don't worry guys sony are that great psn will be back up in minutes xbox sucks (even though their users are online gaming)

[Jaqen_Hghar]

they weren't the last time Live went down. It happens to both

[Iknoweverything]

Not as frequent as psn I have ps4 and xb1 and for the price I pay for online gaming on both psn is diabolical if anyone says psn is superior seriously needs their head checking

[OB1Biker]

http://www.gameinformer.com...

[Jaqen_Hghar]

nbd. This happens all the time with gaming services they just cover it more with PSN. Live, Nintendo, and even sometimes Steam go down. It's not ideal and a man would like the standard to be raised but Sony should not be singled out.

[PistolsAtDawn]

...no actually PSN gets reported the least

[46889337]

PSN not working again. Typical.

[FunAndGun]

I can't play online and none of my digital games work.

Chicago area

oh...its working now.

[BRINGSOCOMBACK]

Working fine for me now.

[StormLegend]

I can't play my digital games

[Team_Litt]

I expect Xbox Live to follow suit shortly. I'm not a big fan of Sony but I know they know how important the holidays are to gamers and so if PSN is down then it most definitely is the fault of DDOSers and not Sony.

So let's set aside our petty fanboyism and not start pointing fingers at Sony and instead steer our anger towards these so called hackers with no lives!

[meche334]

Nah. I don't think XBL is gonna go down

[Subaruwrx]

@meche334 - maybe not but, funny thing is that I've noticed when PSN or XBL goes down and the fan boys come out and blast the 'other' console's online service that their favored console's service goes down soon after - it's called karma.

[AutoCad]

I cant sign in either..
Awesome way to start the weekend

[bluzone]

it's working fine in Ont. Canada.

[LatinGamer214]

Its down here in Minnesota

[Maxor]

Is there going to be a Holiday when the PSN isn't down?

[gamer7804]

wonder if it has anything to do with the new patch they just released, i don't know...

[mrmonk]

il be honest i dont care about the we console war btw i had a 360 liked it then decided to buy ps4 like it to but i hate how much downtime ps4 is having(not the maintenance just random downtime)and i have a child so when i get a bit of free time i like it to be working we are all paying customers it should be better than what it is tbh..and before any1 says it no im not trolling i dont no how much xbox1 goes down as i dont have 1 .

[Subaruwrx]

Working for me in San Francisco. Just checked PSN service status page for the US - https://status.playstation.... - and people are apparently still having problems with PSN. Personally, I have more problems with my Xfinity service than I do with PSN and XBL (I hate Xfinity but they practically have a monopoly for cable/internet services in the San Francisco Bay Area so I more or less have to subscribe to its services.) Xfinity drops service for me for 5-30 mins in the evening at least a dozen times a month - sucks. Both PSN and XBL, at least for me, offer a much more stable service than Xfinity and they cost a lot less. They're not perfect but there are worse things out there.

[Antifan]

It's really sad when this becomes top story on n4g. Then comes back up within a hour of this being posted. Don't see how it's worthy 'news'...

[Flashback001]

Jesus... I think Sony should rename it to Playstation Notwork lol

[Shonuff]

We have have 2 choices here. We can continue to wait for Greatness or we can Jump Ahead now.
You choose

[Sweep14]

Up here in France

[ThePresentIsAgift]

My Wii won't connect online!

[thecowsaysmoo]

This is one of the reasons why I prefer XBL to PSN. XBL isn't perfect, but the down time is less frequent than PSN.

[RoseSapphire]

They're about the same, to be honest.

[JasonKCK]

No they're not. Both are not immune, both fail, both go down, but to say they are equal in downtime and being hacked is just a lie.

[gamer7804]

Still down for me.

[aquaticDonut]

Currently updating my PS4, so, nothing wrong for me.

[Wedge19]

The Dark Knight requires no internet!

[poor_cus_of_games]

Running 100% here in northern Ireland.

[fhizikz]

No problems here

[Drithe]

Why is it that every big holiday the PSN is down?

[RoseSapphire]

It's not. The last time there was any significant outage was near Christmas when hackers threatened all platforms.

[ARESWARLORD]

Hope it is up soon for me

[IceKoldKilla]

I live in Spain and barely have issues. I was playing Destiny and one friend that lives in Mexico next to the US was unable to come back online after he restarted his console. It was like 2 hours then it seemed it got fixed. Should be fixed now I think.

[RoseSapphire]

Sure seems like a lot of whiny people on here with nothing better to do than complain.

Yes, it sucks that it's down. I too would like to play some games and I pay for my service just like the rest of you.

Unfortunately, no company is immune to a DDoS and the jokers out there seem to enjoy messing with Sony more than anyone else.

[RoseSapphire]

It appears to be up and running just fine for me.

[GreenUp]

It's just about every other day it's down. What are we paying $50 a year for? Free phone app games? Awesome.

[Subaruwrx]

According to the status page it's back up in the US - https://status.playstation.... Didn't last too long and it was never down for me. Seems like PSN outages are getting shorter and less frequent and that Sony is improving its infrastructure.

[Locknuts]

People pay for this service, Sony. Fix your shit.

[T2X]

It was screwed up last night when I was playing on the PS3. You know, I love the PS3/4 But, now it seems we pay for the service and it's screwed up quite a bit more than last gen. The friends list is a bit screwy as well. ALso the chat party functions, sometimes it's there and other times it's really laggy etc. Wish they'd get there act together. And it also seems to always be on the holidays (But, we know that's because of increased traffic etc)