Xbox One store and multiplayer down in UK for 16 hours

The Xbox One is suffering issues online, Pixel Enemy has found.

[G20WLY]

Teething trouble.

(Probably...)

[caseh]

More than likely considering the anticipation of the XB1.

I'm expecting the same with PS4 around launch. Day one patch, PSN in general is going to get HAMMERED. Sadly I've not bought any games with my PS4 pre-order, I fear I may be sat twiddling my thumbs for a bit. :0

[snake-OO]

I was going to go your route and not buy any retail games then I saw the prices of PSN store games. Daylight robbery.

[Gazondaily]

I just got off playing Killer IInstinct. Absolutely fine on my end. Has to be said btw, I have NEVER played a beat em up with 0 lag. Honestly, it's like playing offline.

[G20WLY]

Both Live and PSN will be under pressure. Both also have ridiculous game prices, sadly - something needs to be done about it, frankly.

Unless of course they do this to reduce download traffic, in which case it's working a treat! :P

[FamilyGuy]

No way man, you'll have Resogun, Blacklight, DC Universe Online, War Thunder, WarFrame and are you guys getting Contrast through PS+ as well?

There's plenty to play, even if you don't buy a single game at launch.

As far as PSN getting hammered, it'll probably be from all the downloading of games and patches in the first few days if it does have trouble at all. I was on day 1 here with no problems at all. Got that message claiming there to be "maintenance" but I just reset my connection and it let me online and never came up again.

On topic:

I'm sure this down time didn't effect everyone but any launch day buyers should know all things need a bit of ironing out in the beginning.

[caseh]

@familyguy

'No way man, you'll have Resogun, Blacklight, DC Universe Online, War Thunder, WarFrame and are you guys getting Contrast through PS+ as well?'

All of these need to be downloaded...via PSN. I don't know how many PS4s will be live day one (in the EU) but if they all connect up, they will ALL be downloading the patch and every free game doing the rounds. PSN is going to get HAMMERED and it won't be much fun. I'll be surprised if it holds up, not that I don't have faith in Sony but working in IT makes you understand that overloading something will make it fall over and it isn't something you can always get right.

[pyramidshead]

If you bought PS+ for a month about £5, you'd have about £30-40s worth of game to play right off the bat.

[GraveLord]

PS4 already launched in the US. Yes, it did have some problems but if you managed to log in, you were fine. Didn't last 16 hours though. PSN was unstable for launch weekend and fixed itself after that.(kinda)

[LordMaim]

Go download the firmware update to a USB now just in case. Its very helpful, particularly if you're going to upgrade your HDD immediately.

[caseh]

@Lordmaim

Considered that but i've only seen it available on the US Sony support side of things.

It could be universal but unless someone could confirm that I don't think I would take the risk of bricking my PS4 day one. :)

[FamilyGuy]

Did you ignore this entire part of my reply? lol

"As far as PSN getting hammered, it'll probably be from all the downloading of games and patches in the first few days if it does have trouble at all. I was on day 1 here with no problems at all. Got that message claiming there to be "maintenance" but I just reset my connection and it let me online and never came up again."

I downloaded all these games in the first 2 days of the PS4 being out here in the US (minus War Thunder because it comes out this week) and I even got the Trine 2 demo. All with no problem. DC Universe was the biggest, most time consuming one.

also

http://n4g.com/news/1401713...

[DARK WITNESS]

... Brought to you by the power of the cloud !

[stuna1]

Bu..Bu..But Microsoft don't experience online trouble! This has got to be a mistake! I got hammered when I said Live would have issues just like any online service, just like there were launch issues here in the US.

[Mike134nl]

some uk services are running

[Mike134nl]

for the uk gamers wondering why they can still log into xbox live, purchase and content usage and social and gaming functions are apparently 'unavailable'. Xbox core service is still up and running, for details on which uk services are running check:
http://support.xbox.com/en-...

[WMANUW]

Who said that the live was perfect? It can happen

[MightyNoX]

In which case, people need to be thankful the console's not supposed to be always online.

[MasterCornholio]

And some people were claiming that live wouldn't have any issues. I'm pretty sure they will fix it soon.

[Ricegum]

Not good enough, taking it back.

[die_fiend]

You actually bought one?!

[Ricegum]

It was a joke. I thought that was obvious.

[younglj01]

Dang that sucks for the Uk owners,hopefully MS fix the problem soon...

[wombledon]

Everything is fine,must be happening later...if its realy happening,ive had no problens with xbone atall ....just bf4,what a bombsite that is,thats what happens when you push unfinished games out to beat cod lol,greedy stupid ea,

[timlot]

So if I read the 'full story' correctly its not really down?

[GribbleGrunger]

The cars in Forza 5 must be going berserk

[jimbobbeers]

Um.. What issues? Apart from EA server issues, it's fine for me?

[ybadr]

Hmmm 300.000 ??

[Blues Cowboy]

Has worked and is working fine for me. The only issue is code redemption and CoD: Ghosts' squad assault mode.

[5eriously]

The powerz of 300000 cloudz!

[strigoi814]

MS will have a much cloudier future