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PlayStation's daylong global outage disrupted the online gaming economy and knocked Sony's stock


A nearly 24-hour outage on Sony's PlayStation Network Friday night disrupted the online gaming economy and sent Sony's stock down.

At the time of publication, the PlayStation's server status page indicates service has been restored to the network — about 24 hours after the initial disruption started. The outage drew ire from diehard gamers, who chronicled their disappointment in posts on Reddit and X, as well as snark from corporate entities responding to the news. "Bet y'all want physical copies now," GameStop's official account posted as a joke after the outage had dragged on over 14 hours.

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