PlayStation Network Restores Service After Hours-Long Outage as 2028 Disc Exit Fuels Digital Fears
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Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24
PlayStation Network Restores Service After Hours-Long Outage as 2028 Disc Exit Fuels Digital Fears
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24
Summary
Friday evening, Sony’s status page showed all PlayStation Network services back online after hours of disruption that left some users unable to launch games, apps and network features.
Tens of thousands of outage reports hit Down Detector globally, with the problems emerging around the same time Amazon Web Services flagged server issues that were later resolved.
The outage renewed criticism of Sony’s plan to stop releasing new PlayStation games on discs from January 2028, as players noted disc-based titles could still work when digital access failed.
Sony said earlier this month that new games would still be sold in shops after 2028, but as digital-code purchases rather than traditional physical discs.