First-world problems I know but, The PlayStation Network (PSN) experienced a significant global outage over the weekend (yes, at the worst possible time) leaving millions of gamers unable to access online services for approximately 24 hours.
This disruption, which began on Friday evening (February 8, 2025), marked one of the longest outages in recent years and had widespread effects on the gaming community.
The outage prevented players from logging into their accounts, accessing multiplayer games, purchasing content from the PlayStation Store, and utilizing cloud saves.
Popular titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which was hosting a double XP promotional weekend and is unplayable without a PSN connection, saw significant disruptions, so yeah it was frustrating timing.
The issue affected all PSN-supported platforms, including PS5, PS4, PS3, and even legacy devices like the PS Vita.
In a post, Sony’s “AskPlayStation” account attributed the outage to an unspecified “operational issue” but did not provide detailed explanations about its cause.
Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service.
— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) February 9, 2025
To compensate affected users, Sony announced that all PlayStation Plus subscribers would receive an additional five days of service automatically.
Some extra advice has been issued for people still experiencing issues at a console level. While PSN services were restored as of Sunday morning (February 9), some users reported lingering issues with connectivity and online features.
Are you seeing interrupted gameplay or issues launching your games?
— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) February 9, 2025
Try starting your PS5/PS4 console in safe mode and restarting or rebuilding your console database!
⚙️How to use Safe Modehttps://t.co/SkECIYCii0 pic.twitter.com/cTsORrMD8d
For me, the weekend is when I can finally unwind after a busy week with work and family and enjoy a few hours of escapism on a video game either online or offline so it’s not ideal, especially since around the same time I received an ironic email from Helldivers 2 asking where the hell I was. Sorry guys, I can’t kill the bugs, because of the PlayStation Bug”.
It’s all back to normal now, so enjoy those extra days of PlayStation Plus and check out the list of February Games which I think is a really solid group this month with Payback 3, Pac Man and High on Life.
