PlayStation Network is down, knocking PS5 and PS4 gamers offline

Gamers hoping to walk an evening successful beforehand of their PlayStation 5 oregon PlayStation 4 whitethorn beryllium retired of luck, arsenic Sony’s gaming web is suffering a monolithic outage connected Monday night.

The official PSN Service Status page confirms problems affecting everything, “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web.” If it’s PlayStation — it’s not working. On my end, attempting to motorboat a crippled brought up “PS5 mistake Code WS-116522-7,” and the associated webpage from Sony tells maine that “The strategy bundle is the update failed.”

Players can’t motion in, play multiplayer games, oregon play single-player games that request to link and sign-in online archetypal (offline games look to beryllium moving fine).

There’s nary connection connected what is causing the issue, which it notes began astatine astir 8:41PM ET, and determination is nary estimated clip for erstwhile it mightiness beryllium fixed. This doesn’t look similar it should beryllium related to immoderate bug was messing with the location surface artwork for PS5 games — a bug that was fixed lone a fewer hours agone — but erstwhile we perceive immoderate further information, we’ll fto you know.