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PlayStation Network is back online following a lengthy outage


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By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. The official PSN Service Status page confirms problems affecting everything, “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web.” If it’s PlayStation — it’s not working. On my end, attempting to launch a game brought up “PS5 error Code WS-116522-7,” and the associated webpage from Sony tells me that “The system software is the update failed.”

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