PlayStation Network may have earned a reputation for being unreliable in its earlier days, but Sony’s really shored up the service in the past five or so years. We’ve got to give the company kudos for keeping the console online these past couple of months, then, as the ongoing coronavirus crisis means there’s more people playing than ever before.
Despite the platform holder announcing plans to throttle download speeds, there hasn’t been any significant downtime outside of the odd isolated incident. Final Fantasy VII Remake’s digital launch went without a hitch this week, and while you may find that it’s taking longer than usual to download software from the PlayStation Store, the delays haven’t been too dramatic on our end.
We hope the PlayStation maker releases some data at a later date, because it would be fascinating to learn just how much of an uptick there’s been in PSN usage since the world went into lockdown. Are you playing your PS4 more at the moment? How have things been holding up for you? Stay connected in the comments section below.
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I have no problem with psn, I can download ff7 remaster about 1 day while hibernating my ps4. And I'm playing ff7 remaster every night with no problem.
Even they say online play won't be affected by this. I can't play Soulcalibur without disconects anymore. And i'm not alone
Psn has been fine for the whole of the PS4 life cycle. Dont know why so many claim it to still be flakey. Bravo Sony
@Tamlyn I wonder if that's an issue with Soul Calibur rather than PSN?
The PSN has certainly been more reliable then Xbox Live over the last couple of months. My console has been auto updating over WiFi without a hitch. Good job Sony.
@get2sammyb don't know. There was an update eith haomaro too. But i think i had issues before. I try to play again when i finished ff7
@Tamlyn Apparently a lot of fighting games are having issues at the moment. I heard Granblue Fantasy Versus is noticeably unstable right now.
It could be down to a lot of different factors. Could be the game servers, which aren't used to dealing with additional load, or it could just be localised network problems depending on where you live. Hopefully it gets better soon!
I'm personally well set for staying at home (mortgage holiday FTW) Besides family time, I'm using the free time to catch up on my ridiculous backlog. It's well over 100 games so I'm not gonna run out of stuff to play any time soon.
Just finished Shenmue 3 yesterday. Now playing God of War. Beautiful game so far. When I'm done with this I'm back to Death Stranding.
Also playing Dreams, which I love. I find it's a great game to dip in and play a few different short games when I have a spare 20 minutes. My play time for that last I checked is around 74 hours which is insane. I've played 1200+ community games in Dreams so far 😲 but barely touched the creation tools yet.
Then my online game of choice is Apex Legends. I'm not very good at it, but me and the misses love playing that when the kids are in bed. Annoyingly though shes better than me. I put it down to the fact that Apex is pretty much all she plays. Whereas I mix it up a bit more. That's my excuse anyways.
Right back to God of War while the girls are watching Disney +
@Arugula I'd argue that games are more important than ever now. Not only is it great to have something that gives people so much to do indoors to remove the temptation to mingle outside out of boredom or loneliness, it's at tougher times when simple fun things become so important as they can lift people's spirits. Imagine a world with no frivolous tech like TVs, music players, consoles etc where all many people would have to do now is sit on your own in silence for months.
Since that major downtime on the ps4, I haven't had many issues. That Christmas a few years ago where Sony and ms both got hit, the last time I can think of any real issues.
ESO was nearly unplayable this morning. Tried a solo dungeon and the game would freeze me up while the baddies bombard me with spells and melee. After a while it would catch up and I’d be dead. Might not solely be a PSN issue but it only occurs at certain times so I’m assuming.
@Arugula Thanks. Actually, it was Wakka in FFX all those years ago that made me realise that - but he's talking about Blitzball and Sin rather than gaming and coronavirus. 😄
@wiiware It took you you a day to download FFVII Remake when your PS4 was in rest mode? Is that normal for you? Because it only took about 6 hours for the game to download on my PS4 and I don't have super fast broadband either. So yeah no problems for me!
@JohnnyShoulder My internet speed is not great, maybe about 15 Mbps. Not a problem for me though since I can hibernate ps4 on night and have the game ready by morning, or hibernate morning and have the game ready by afternoon.
Jeez how do people have 100 games in their backlog? I played everything i wanted to play & i'm only waiting for new releases..
I still hit 80-100 MBs/second. Cant complain
I have yet to read into PS5 specs beyond the bullet-point versus charts across the web. can someone tell me if the PS5 will have an overhauled ethernet/wireless card so we can download at a pace that makes the PS4 Pro seem like dial up?
No problems here, working good as always!
Download speeds are great, the copying files stuff takes ages.
shrugs there was maintenance when I used my PS4 last night @ uk. idk if sony's servers are coping or not 🤔
no issues for me; downloads seem as fast as they ever were and I'm rarely disconnected if ever. so those "stability" updates seem to be working as intended
Played a bit of Far Cry 4 (people are back on it again and I needed a couple of the online trophies for the platinum) and it was laggy as hell. I was shooting at people who weren’t there anymore and getting shot by people I couldn’t even see until I was dead.
Finally got the platinum, after years of dead lobbies, so it wasn’t all bad.
I downloaded Mortal Kombat 11 and it took little over 24 hours.
PSN's been down for the past 9 hours. Single player games are still fine, just can't play multiplayer games.
I can't login to my psn because my email and password is not correct and I have been using the email and password for years playstation support is unavailable and won't pick up the phone and their live chats won't work when I hear they are open they are not they are close and I have to wait until the covid 19 is over this suck I hope sony does something about this asap
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