ROME (AP) 鈥 A major outage of Sony鈥檚 PlayStation Network (PSN) on Saturday has left tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.
鈥淲e are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,鈥 PlayStation said on its social media platforms, confirming users鈥 mounting complaints around the globe.
Reports of connectivity issues spread quickly across social media, with users frustrated by error messages and login failures.
鈥淧SN down on a Friday night is criminal,鈥 a London-based user named Ramos wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
According to the Downdetector outage tracking site, users started to report issues with PSN late Friday.
Shortly after, Sony responded to users鈥 concerns, confirming the problems without providing details on the possible cause of the outage.
The website confirmed problems with its PlayStation Network services. The PlayStation support webpage said 鈥渟ome services are experiencing issues,鈥 including its account management and gaming and social services, as well as PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct.
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