{"id":533648,"date":"2026-04-16T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:57:08","slug":"psn-down-for-some-service-slowly-being-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533648\/","title":{"rendered":"PSN Down for Some, Service Slowly Being Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PSN Down Around the World, But Sony Yet to Acknowledge Outage 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/23ba0aa4c69d8\/psn-down-around-the-world-but-sony-yet-to-acknowledge-outage-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/psn-down-around-the-world-but-sony-yet-to-acknowledge-outage-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"PSN Down Around the World, But Sony Yet to Acknowledge Outage 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update [Thu 16th Apr 2026, 3:45am]: Well, that was a relatively quick response, assuming everything is on the mend.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of PSN going down spiked a little after 10PM EDT \/ 7PM PDT \/ 3AM BST, but seem to be settling down now, roughly 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>While we weren\u2019t able to boot any online-only games a few minutes ago, we\u2019ve been having more success already. We\u2019re seeing similar chatter around social media.<\/p>\n<p>While some isolated issues may remain \u2013 and it does look like a bunch of servers went down all around the same time \u2013 things should steadily improve from here.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll update again if anything particularly dramatic occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Original Story: There are widespread reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.co.uk\/status\/playstation-network\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSN outage circulating online<\/a>, with PS5 and PS4 owners noting an inability to play multiplayer games.<\/p>\n<p>We just tested our console and were able to login, but did have some issues playing some of our online-only games.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/status.playstation.com\/en-GB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially acknowledge the downtime<\/a>, but from what we\u2019re seeing, this does appear to be a wider web issue. Various other online services, including retailers and gaming platforms, have seen a spike in inactivity over the past hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll update if this story develops in a meaningful way, but for now just sit tight and hopefully all will be resolved relatively swiftly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update [Thu 16th Apr 2026, 3:45am]: Well, that was a relatively quick response, assuming everything is on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,197,112,26296,622,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-533648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-ps4","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-psn","12":"tag-sony","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}