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Sony says PlayStation Plus members will get five-day extension after outage


After the PlayStation Network experienced a global outage that lasted for nearly a day, Sony says it will compensate PlayStation Plus subscribers by

The outage seems to have lasted from Friday evening until Saturday evening in the United States, with many PlayStation owners reporting difficulty loading their digital games or connecting with friends online. Downdetector shows that outage reports peaked at around midday Saturday on the East Coast before falling throughout the afternoon and evening. The Ask PlayStation account on X posted at around 7pm that “PSN has been restored,” following up five hours later with a message that “network services have fully recovered from an operational issue.”

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