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Update [Fri 24th Jul 2026, 1:10pm]: After a brief outage which knocked almost all PSN features offline, the service is slowly beginning to recover.
It looks like Amazon Web Services – which powers a lot of the PSN – had a hiccup earlier today, resulting in widespread issues around the world.
I’ll continue to monitor the situation, but AWS has acknowledged the issues, and has said services are slowly returning to normal.
While the PSN is still displaying some errors for me, it is beginning to return to normal, as I can now see my friends list and recently played games again.
Original Story: PSN appears to be struggling globally, with Sony’s official status page saying “all services are up and running”.
Down Detector shows a huge spike in reports over the past few hours in the US, which is gradually easing. In the UK, more reports are coming in as time passes.
From my end, the entire network is down, including even game downloads and the PS App.
I can’t see my most recently played games, Trophies, or browse my friends list or connect to game servers.
Chatting with the rest of the Push Square team, we’re all experiencing issues – although our mileage varies.
Some of us can’t even verify our game licenses to play digital games – not exactly ideal in this non-physical era Sony’s trying to force us into.
Others are able to at least see their recently played games, but the PS Store is mostly broken. It seems like even the web-based PS Store is offline.
Meanwhile, the Marvel Tokon beta – out today – is showing a ‘Network Error’ on PS5.
I’ll continue to monitor the situation and contact Sony for an update. In the meantime, do let me know how you’re getting on in your country via the comments section.