Uh oh, the PlayStation Network seems to be down again. Over the last couple of weeks, there have been two widely reported outages - although neither has lasted more than a few hours, thankfully. With any luck, this latest downtime will be a similar story.
Weighing in with our own experience, we currently can't connect here in the UK, and as far as we're aware, most of Europe is having the same issue. We're also getting the dreaded "the PlayStation Network is currently unavailable due to maintenance" message when trying to sign in.
Are you having problems? Keep us up to date in the comments section below.
Update: Sony has acknowledged that some users are experiencing issues, and is apparently working to fix the problem.
Update 2 [00:45AM BST]: The PlayStation Network appears to still be down, and Sony has reiterated that it's still working to fix the issue. It's now been around two hours since the service went offline. Here's hoping that it comes back sooner rather than later, what with the PlayStation Meeting happening tomorrow and all.
Update 3 [02:30AM BST]: We're starting to get reports that the network is slowly coming back online for some users.
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Inb4...and this is what we pay $60/yr for now?
Kids went back to school as did my wife a teacher. I'm off tomorrow everyone's in bed. Looks like my first real PlayStation time in 7 weeks is a non starter.
all PSN services are down for me (i'm in the UK). i was logged in but store, friends list, what's new, notifications, etc. were timing out. after a restart, i can't connect at all.
What is happening is weird. I ended up doing some heists on GTA Online and as soon as I booted Rocket League, I couldn't connect. I restarted my PS4 but then I couldn't connect to anything.
Yep, I got nothing. Can't connect to anything with anything.
How long will it be down for?
i paid £32 for current year's sub, but i only pay it for multiplayer, wouldn't bother otherwise, i usually don't even bother to download the 'free' games. but i didn't like titanfall 2 or battlefield 1 beta, so don't intend to buy either.. so might not need the sub after it expires in december.
Yeah, mine is down too.
@Rossco3737 If it's anything like the other recent outages, it won't be down for long. They only lasted around 1-2 hours. Still, not good enough really.
This is strange, I cant even close games down via the options button on the home page. My console is basically bricked. No point playing games for trophies as they will likely corrupt.
@Sir_JBizzle I agree. I think they should backtrack the price hike and announce it again once psn hasn't been down for at least six months.
@leucocyte same here US account
Sigh, hopefully it's fixed soon. This is getting ridiculous.
3 more days and BF1 Beta will run out and the psn is down ... AAAAAHHHHHH
ONCE AGAIN THREW ANOTHER RANKED GAME OF OVERWATCH BULLS**T
Totally bummed. Took off work tomorrow so I could play the last night of the nioh beta, and psn is down. Killing me here
It's down in Oz too 😓
Maybe it is for tomorrow.
I want a free game for this.
Great!!! I've inly just got to 7th day of logging into HUT on NHL to get my daily pucks up to 1250 a day. That will thankfully now reset back down to 0 as will have missed my 24 hour window.
Cheers Sony, nice warning for maintenance.
It's down here in MD USA. This is becoming a regular thing now. I gotta pay more and get a whole lot less. Was destroying the other team on BF1 2nd place by 3 points lol. Then bam nothing is working so I lost all that & I guess that I lost the recording as well. Ugh ugh UGHHH ! ! ! !
I bet this happened because everybody rushed in to download Lords of the Fallen at the same time. Thanks guys.
Absolutely absurd. We can come up with whatever excuses we want but at now the same price as Xbox Live the comparison is more fair than ever and it's not even close (never really was) as to which is better. Sony... get your sh*t together.
I was an Xbox live subscriber for 4 years on my 360 I don't think it went down once. I've been a PSN subscriber for about 20 months and I can't even count the number of times it's been down. If you are going to charge a premium price for a service you really should make sure it works. Sony has had just as much time as anyone else to build their online infrastructure yet they seem to be in the worst spot.
@GoatWrench
Absolutely. It's not like this is some new network either. Sony's been in the online game, seriously, since the start of the PS3 era. And they're still lagging behind Nintendo as far as stability of the service. Pretty pathetic. I'm not one of those who gets all p*ssy about having to pay either. $60 a year really isn't that bad if you provide an excellent service like XBL, the same, unfortunately, can't be said for PlayStation Network and as big a fan as I am of the PS brand I can't defend bs, it shocks me how little the poor service that is PSN annoys some people but the existence of PS4K (a system that won't be required to enjoy any existing or new PS4 games) makes them lose their f**king minds.
xbox live hasn't been stellar in the XB1 era either. few months back it was down about 8 times in as many days.
I'm an avid Xbox user and I don't remember that.
@DG42Velka i feel you
lies i had the 360 for 6 years and it went down once or twice
https://www.vg247.com/2016/02/23/xbox-live-is-down-for-the-eighth-time-in-as-many-days/
Hopefully EA will give us another day with their incredible beta , they are usually very good with stuff like this. Just starting to get to get to grips with it.
@Gamer83 Well I do, it as down absurdly often at the start of this year.
are you guys really trying to say xbox live is as bad as psn
@Gamer83 @DaveIsAnAceGamer @SmashbrosFtw1306 @leucocyte
I think we can all agree that xbox live trumps ps network. Yes both have had problems, even on the 360 there were outages, sometimes longer than others. But nothing on the scale of PSN. Everything is linked in on psn, so you cant do much outside of play games offline. On 360 I'm pretty sure I could still do stuff like check achievements, go online, read old messages etc. I cant do anything on psn. Its completely down. That's the issue, as well as the stupidly slow downloads, dodgy messaging which takes ages and friends lists not showing properly even when its working. PSN get organised its a joke.
Can we keep the comments section nice and civil please? I know it's annoying that PSN is down, but we can still play nice!
Yes please, I know we are all upset but cursing and insulting others here is not the way to go. Neither I nor @ShogunRok want to have to be handing out a vacation from the site.
Goes back to playing Mega Man on the Genesis
This time it is also down where i live. I got the message just minutes ago when i turned my PS4 on. Maybe, as the message says, it is just for maintenance.
@Tasuki Do you get some sort of pleasure threatening bans on this site? We get it, you're the internet tough guy here.
@Napples I'd advise against derailing the comments section unless you really do want to get banned.
@Gamer83 Yes!
As someone who owns both a PS4 and a Xbox One XBL is so much better why is it that Sony can never get their crap together on PSN?
Back in business here in Texas.
I've been playing destiny all evening with almost no problems, PSN itself seems to be crumbling though.
I am a relatively new Playstation customer. I've had my ps4 for about three months and have not had ps plus although I have had psn. The only online games I play are Bo3 occasionally, Doom (great game) multiplayer and No Man's Sky which all don't require ps plus. But my friend just got a ps4 today and got Overwatch and bought ps plus so he told me to get both of those so we could play together. I went out to gamestop to get Overwatch and bought ps plus. Right as I was going to start playing with him online psn stopped working. I just started high school and there will be a very reduced amount of time to play with him. Point is I'm very upset. (Sorry I took so long to explain this if you did read all of it.) Please modify your habits and familiarize yourselves with ways to keep psn up. (Just copy Xbox if you must)
-Some whose opinion doesn't matter
That sucks I haven't been on PSN all day, but I do plan to get on there for my two days off here. Hopefully this is fixed, and just want to say I don't have much of a problem on Xbox One.
Welp guys this is why we should be on steam instead. Honestly this company on their new console launch makes us pay to have the luxury to play online but yet their ability to maintain the services hasn't changed from before.. Unexpected server maintenance plus that maintenance taking literally forever just is poor quality. Three times in two weeks where I could not play even tho I had paid to have these services. They should at least give us notice or how long these periods of maintenance are going to last but to no avail we are left in the dark to wait and wait.. and wait.
Yep I have been down since about 4 pm here in NC. Why am I paying so much for so little service. I agree all affected players should be compensated! BTW I love the "thank you for your patience" That patience disappeared a long time ago!
@Dankwaff Amen, I'm building my PC in December goodbye to this forever.
Language -Tasuki-
Gee, I really should drop $70 a year for this
Oh okay my friend freaked out saying sony psn is being hack again but, just how long will they keep doing this? I was in a middle of my gaming of resident evil 5 with my friend and now this happen. i wish they just give us heads up.
Willing to trade my PS4 for a taco.
Still out for me, also in Texas.
Been working for me in California tonigh. Been playing Borderlands 2 all evening.
@GooRoo same. From Texas and still out
The fragile network
The minute Madden season begins, PSN starts having hiccups. I'm not saying it's just Madden, but Madden is always the kick off for online season with lots of new releases and tons of extra people online. This will only get worse as the months progress, with inevitable downtimes during the festive season, and we'll all be told once more it's DDOS'ing kids at it again.
meh any online service is bound to have problems so i'm not fussed if i can't use it for a few hours
Personally I feel that if I am paying for a service, then I expect that service to operate 24/7/365. I can probably count the hours on 1 hand how long I have been without online access with Xbox Gold - I know its not 'perfect' all the time but rarely affected me. I certainly don't expect my gas/electricity, broadband/phone, TV services (like Sky and freeview as I pay a TV licence) to be off for any length of time or as frequent as PSN outages.
You would think that Sony, with all the extra money coming in from making the online access subscription based and after a number of attacks/outages as well as all the 'maintenance' they have carried out, would have done something to improve and safeguard their system!
@BAMozzy You've never had a power cut?
Now that they have all these streaming services, Sony really needs to overhaul their network considerably....and not just for future PSNeo purchasers either.
When PSN is down, so is PSNow, PSVideo, and PSVue. Meaning someone could be paying upwards of $410 a year for services that have been down at peak hours for the past couple of weeks.
Call up Microsoft, ask them how they run their servers....and copy that. Sony always does it with Nintendo, may as well jock something useful from MS.
@BertoFlyingFox It's been said before, but it's hardly surprising MS have a more stable network infrastructure given the money they have to play with and their wealth experience in this sector. I'm not making excuses, frankly I couldn't care if PSN is down or not as I'll just do something else, but it is understandable that Sony would have difficulties competing with MS in this area, especially given they have more active users this generation.
Of course, the counter argument is that they shouldn't be charging as much for it if they can't match it, which is fair enough. Like I said though, I'm not too bothered
Had a 360 for about five years, before jumping over to PS4 on release date and i must have missed the near mythical perfection of xbox live thats been mentioned...
Anyway on topic: This always happens about this time, with the slew of new stuff coming, ya'd think Sony would learn by now..
I dont mind that much but considering Virgin will at least do something for goodwill if my internet service is down for a few hours, it cant be that difficult to adjust say psplus subs for those couple of lost hours, considering they are all timestamped, but hey wishful thinking i guess. Probably in the updated t's and c's that they dont have to....
@ShogunRok were not aloud to show our anger towards this 3 TIMES i have been screwed over by this on overwatch ranked i was getting so close to diamond AND BOOM DEAD
@SmashbrosFtw1306 No one said that you're not allowed to show your anger, but do so in a respectful, mature way.
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