PlayStation Network Hit by Outage. Maybe a Bad Time to Drop Physical Game Discs?
Thousands of players reported PlayStation Network downtime on Friday, in the middle of the open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.According to Downdetector, over 3,000 players reported experiencing an outage at around 7 a.m. ET, and reports since then have consistently remained in the hundreds. PlayStation has also updated its official site to confirm that, "You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features." Services slowly came back online this afternoon, with the PlayStation Store being the last to be fixed.
- ▪Thousands of players reported PlayStation Network downtime on Friday, in the middle of the open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.According to Downdetector, over 3,000 players reported experiencing an outage at around 7 a.m.
- ▪ET, and reports since then have consistently remained in the hundreds.
- ▪PlayStation has also updated its official site to confirm that, "You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features." Services slowly came back online this afternoon, with the PlayStation Store being the last to be fixed.
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Gamers, lament! Thousands of players reported PlayStation Network downtime on Friday, in the middle of the open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.According to Downdetector, over 3,000 players reported experiencing an outage at around 7 a.m. ET, and reports since then have consistently remained in the hundreds. PlayStation has also updated its official site to confirm that, "You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features." Services slowly came back online this afternoon, with the PlayStation Store being the last to be fixed. "All services are up and running," the site says as of 3 p.m. ET.The outage coincides with the open beta for Sony’s Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, which began on July 24 and will run until the end of the weekend.
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