PlayStation has provided a statement following this weekend’s PlayStation Network (PSN) outage. The company said the service has now “fully recovered from an operational issue.”
On the evening of February 7th, PlayStation users were hit with various issues while attempting to use Sony’s online services. These issues, affecting PSN persisted for nearly 24 hours, making it one of the longest PSN outages ever. At the time, users were left unaware of what may be affecting everything from sign-ins to online multiplayer, to purchases of digital games. “We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” the @AskPlayStation account said at the time on X (formerly Twitter).
These issues continued to plague the weekend until roughly the afternoon of Saturday, February 8th. Online services slowly began to return. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” the PlayStation support account said on February 9th. To compensate for nearly 24 hours of issues, all PlayStation Plus members will be receiving an additional five days of service automatically.
This weekend’s PSN outage has been one of the worst in the history of the service. The last major outage occurred back in October. However, the issues only persisted for around nine hours. However, the latest outage is nothing compared to the infamous PSN outage of 2011. Nearly 14 years ago, PSN went down for a whopping 24 days. Nearly 77 million accounts were compromised due to a hack. All PSN services were down for the duration of the outage. The make-good coming from Sony at the time was to offer a downloadable code for a select PlayStation 3/PlayStation Portable game.
This weekend’s outage coincided with a number of online campaigns from various publishers. For instance, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is hosting its double XP weekend. Warframe is also extending in-game events to compensate for the downtime during the outage. Capcom is also extending the Open Beta Test 2 period for Monster Hunter Wilds to accommodate PlayStation players who were unable to play the game.
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