There’s a good chance if you were trying to play your PS5 last night, you may have been hit by some server issues. There was a widespread global outage during the middle of the night in the UK, which affected the peak evening window in the United States. All of the issues were resolved within a couple of hours or so, but obviously you wouldn’t have been able to play online-only titles, like the newly released Honkai: Star Rail.
Long-time PlayStation fans may recall server hiccups being a common issue in the early years of the PS4’s lifespan, but to Sony’s credit, it’s really steadied its infrastructure – and there’s rarely ever any major issues these days. That’s important progress, because as we alluded to above, more and more titles are relying on online connectivity in order to function these days.
Did the PSN outage interrupt your gaming plans overnight? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Ahh, I thought something was up as for some reason I couldn't download a save from playstation cloud
Middle of the night? Online-play down? What’s a Honkai?
All good.
i tend to be asleep in the middle of the night so no problems here
I was out with friends, got a bit pissed and fell asleep doing Genshin dailies when I got home. Did notice I had been logged out when I woke up on the sofa. Not the best start to the day but that has little to do with the outage. Lol
I was playing Burnout 3: Takedown on my PS2 and then this outage happened so I kept playing.
I was sleeping, but if I wasn't I'd be playing on my PC.
I've been playing my PS5 with the internet off lately. It's nice to feel unconnected from it all. And I miss the seclusion of the consoles of my youth.
Feckin hell I think I'm getting old...
At about 10pm I was removed from my chat party whilst playing Apex with my buddy. Then I couldn't hear him in the game chat. After that he started a party I was able to join but couldn't hear him and he couldn't see I was in the party. I was not able to add him to a different party. I gave up and went to bed at a reasonable hour......
Not good enough in 2023 Sony!!!!
I hope you're planning to re-emburce part of my PS plus membership for the time lost
@Member_the_game youd be owed about 12p for the time it was down.
Still weirding my way through the west, had no idea the bounty hunter was part 1.
I honestly didn't notice and I was playing AC Mirage around that time - although that might've been exactly when I took a break.
@Shepherd_Tallon 😂😂welcome to the club!
Still enjoy gaming like I’m 5 years old though!
@Vacuumator Honkai - Slavic local dialect question to use soundhorn in car or to swing on chair. The right answer is: Zahonkam, Honkam (I'll do it) Nezahonkam, Nebudu/dem Honkat' (I won't).
Everytime I see that title I ROFL.
@Weebleman
Better in my pocket than theirs
I saw that annoying group on Twitter claim they did it 🙄
@PSme The Wise Gamers club we'll call it 😌
I feel like we should have a tag for this or something.
@djlard i have the same with nier titles.
Nier is actually the Dutch word for kidney.
Nope, but EA was being a little weird earlier on in the evening, so I played more Baldur's Gate 3 instead 😁
@Member_the_game hard to argue with that i suppose
@Shepherd_Tallon ‘ The Wise Gamers Club’. I like it!!👍🏻👍🏻
Sign me up!!😂
This is the problem with online only games, as soon as the servers go down your games useless
Oh, that's why I was booted from my BG3 co-op run.
I was able to resume the run an hour after though.
Kept appearing offline last night, no green dot near avatar and remained that way even after changing it. Checked is PSN down and just turned off PS5. Annoyance but no biggie as it never happens often. Modern gaming though
I kept getting kicked out whilst playing EAFC at about 8pm for half an hour so went and played AC Mirage instead.
It would be cool to know more details about Sonys PSN infrastructure.
Does this site get something for each mention of honkai...🤦🙄
My cut off is 9:00pm ever since I dreamt about being chased through a maze by a Barron of Hell (old school Doom). Didn’t see any issue at 5:30am when I was playing Dark Souls 1 (don’t ask, reverse insomnia!). Just as well I wasn’t playing GT7, this is why there should always be an offline option
It happened while I was asleep. So unless the cat plays…
I Was working.😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
As someone that didn't play my PS4 the day before I think, but did download and play Gravity Trickster's demo (PS4 only) yesterday after trying out Last Guardian physical I didn't notice a thing.
Not surprised it happens though. That or PS5's PSN then PS4's even though should be the same but whatever difference in functionality or console side or whatever.
Also UK outage huh fair enough.
@Ashkorsair 😀👍
But I think the biggest ROFL gives me Vegeta from Naruto. Vegeta is famous eastern european food additive (mix of dried root vegetables and salts).
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