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Playstation is currently down 7/24 (orig title: Is PlayStation Network Down Right Now? Players Report PSN Issues) (www.vice.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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Theres a lot of articles like this one right now popping up. Seeing it on other sites as well.

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Hilarious timing for a 6h+ downtime/instability, with all the controversy about them killing physical games and lack of response from Sony.

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Heh, hearing lots of similar sentiments from different people.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

I wonder if this is an organized attack, out of hate what Sony does at the moment.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just AWS being down again, as far as I'm aware.

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

AWS having issues + the billion dollar company pushing for a digital-only future not knowing concepts like "cloud redundancy".

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago*

AWS recovered quickly apparently, PSN outage continued.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/psn-down-for-6plus-hours-ps-store-still-being-repaired

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Remember this news story, PlayStation Users Report New Online License Checks, But Sony Quells Concerns. So PS5's turn into overpriced paperweights when?

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

As far as I know, there was genuine nuance to that story. The short version is they set up license checks built to stop refund scammers who would buy a game, install it, go offline, and refund it.

If someone has confirmed otherwise, I’d be open to correction.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Must be a slow news day if they are doing an article with a question mark that can be answered with turning on your console.

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

Or by opening https://status.playstation.com/

And yes, all services are experiencing issues right now.

@mesamunefire@piefed.social (Tagging you in case you actually wanted an answer)

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[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

Seems at the time the article was published, the status page was showing green across the board. They updated the status page after the fact, and then the article updated to include that.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Status page probably took a while to "realize" its offline. They do not operate on realtime.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social [S] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh wow good info to know. Tx.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Not everyone has a console. And those who have it, might be at work and could plan around to come later to home. :-) These articles aren't bad to have, they just report what is happening.

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[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago

I think it's rhetorical.

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