SonyRoughly 20 hours after PlayStation Network went down, PlayStation servers have slowly started going back online for users around the world.
PSN servers suddenly stopped working on Friday, February 7 with the outage lasting nearly 24 hours. PlayStation confirmed that the company was aware of the issue and was actively working on a fix.
During the outage, various online-only games were impacted, such as Black Ops 6 and Fortnite. PlayStation itself has yet to formally comment on the matter.
SonyPlayStation Network servers are back up after long outage
PSN is back up and running at the time of writing. Players can once again sign back into their accounts, access the PlayStation App, and hop back into online games.
The February 7 through February 8 PSN outage counts as the second-longest in PlayStation history, the longest having occurred in 2011.
The 2011 PSN hack lasted for about three weeks between April 20 and May 14 due to a data breach that compromised the accounts of more than 70 million PlayStation users.
To compensate fans for the inconvenience at the time, Sony offered its customers a welcome-back package that included free access to games such as the original InFamous, LittleBigPlanet, Dead Nation, and Wipeout HD.
Famously, this marked the start of PlayStation’s free PS Plus offerings, a feature that still exists for subscribers to this day.