PSN Still Down After 18 Hours: Here Is Sony's Response
Online services for popular networks go down or suffer intermittent issues from time to time, and that's exactly what's going on now for Sony's PlayStation Network. On Friday evening, players began reporting issues with PSN, and those issues are persisting some 18+ hours later. This is said to be the second-longest PSN downtime ever, only behind the infamous 2011 PSN outage that ran for 23 days.
The Ask PlayStation account acknowledged the issues, which are affecting pretty much ever major PSN service, including account management, the PlayStation Store, and the pretty important feature of launching and playing games. To sum up, this is a pretty significant outage, and as you might expect, people are letting Sony know by broadcasting their thoughts and opinions online.
Why is the PSN down?
This is the key question. Sony's lack of communication is frustrating some fans. So far, this is all the company has said: "We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN." Beyond that, Sony has not said a word about what happened or when the PSN might come back online.
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