The PlayStation Network went down across the U.S. on Tuesday evening, with users reporting issues in many areas, according to the Downdetector service which monitors service outages.
An outage map produced by Downdetector showed service was lost across the United States over the past 24 hours, with a particular concentration in the North-Eastern cities of New York, Boston and Washington D.C.
More widely outages were reported in cities across the nation, including Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Newsweek contacted PlayStation for comment on Wednesday via online media inquiry form outside of regular office hours.
Why It Matters
As of June 2025, Sony, the company behind PlayStation, said its PlayStation Network had 123 million monthly active users. Loss of PlayStation Network service, even if only briefly, is a blow to the company amid intense competition between video game providers.
What To Know
A network service status message from PlayStation noted that “some services are experiencing issues” with “gaming and social” services on platforms including “other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web”.
You might have difficulty launching games, apps or network features. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience,” PlayStation’s network status says.
According to Downdetector, the number of people reporting PlayStation Network outages exploded from just 32 at 9:01 p.m. ET on Tuesday, only just ahead of the baseline of 19, to 930 at 9:31p.m. ET and then 11,855 at 10:01 p.m. ET.
This was the peak after which the figure fell back to 8,558 at 10:30 p.m. ET, then 520 at 11:30 p.m. ET and continued this decline until it reached just 93 at 2:16 a.m. ET on Thursday, only just above the baseline for this time of 11.
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