WASHINGTON (AFP) – Sony PlayStation’s online services came back online, the Japanese group said, after a 24-hour outage frustrated gamers around the world.
PlayStation Network “has been restored. You should be able to access online features without any problems now”, said a statement on X around midnight GMT yesterday, 24 hours after a message acknowledged users were experiencing “difficulty launching games, apps or network features”. “Sorry for the inconvenience!” the post added, without providing further details on the reasons for the outage.
The network’s failure prevented many owners of Sony consoles including the PS4 and the PS5 from playing multiplayer games such as the hugely popular Fortnite and Call of Duty.
The specialised site DownDetector.com had reported that users’ difficulties peaked sharply around 7pm United States (US) Eastern time on Friday, before falling steadily, but not quite returning to normal levels.
