{"id":295128,"date":"2025-02-10T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=348107"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:25:48","slug":"playstation-network-suffers-an-outage-of-several-hours-that-prevents-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/playstation-network-suffers-an-outage-of-several-hours-that-prevents-online-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Network suffers an outage of several hours that prevents online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagine staying at home ready to game all afternoon and when you try, you can’t. The PlayStation Network (PSN) was affected for 17 hours, impacting multiple essential functions for users, including online gaming, the PlayStation Store, and the PlayStation Portal<\/strong>. According to the official PSN status, the issues began on Saturday at midnight, resulting in difficulties with account management, logging in, purchasing games, and most importantly, accessing video games.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Curiously, the outage not only affected multiplayer games but also single-player titles that rely on license verification. Players have reported that when trying to access games that theoretically do not require an Internet connection, such as Metaphor: ReFantazio and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, they encountered error messages indicating that they could not connect to the server to verify the game’s license.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Additionally, users of the PS5 Slim or PS5 Pro consoles found themselves unable to connect their disc drive,<\/strong> which blocked access to their entire collection of physical games during the outage. This has led some players to express their frustration, highlighting the importance of access to physical media in an increasingly digitized ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n

Although PlayStation acknowledged the issue, it has not yet provided details about the cause of the outage or an estimated time to resolve it. This service disruption occurs at a critical moment, just days before a State of Play event<\/strong> where new information is expected to be revealed about highly anticipated titles, such as Death Stranding 2 and the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3.<\/p>\n\n\n

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