PlayStation Network servers down? PSN users get ‘service busy’ message amid widespread outage

PlayStation Network experienced outages Tuesday afternoon in the U.S., affecting over 5,000 users, per DownDetector reports.

PlayStation Network was down for thousands of users in the United States on Tuesday afternoon. More than 5,000 people reported an outage with Sony's flagship gaming platform on DownDetector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users' reports.

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At the time of this writing, more than 8,000 people had reported an outage with PlayStation Network on DownDetector. 81% of the users reported server issues, while the rest said they faced problems with logging in and carrying out PNS-related social media activities.

More than 8,000 users reported an outage with PlayStation network in the US.(DownDetector)

PlayStation Outage Update

The outage lasted for briefly an hour, peaking with more than 11,136 reports. The outage map showed that only United States locations were affected. Among the most affected cities were Tampa in Florida, New York, Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta.

But, nonetheless, coming as it did in the peak post-work hours of the evening, the hour-long outage left many PSN users frustrated. It resulted in a flood of comments on social media.

“Is it even worth it? Is it even worth it to wake up, eat, go to work, eat, sleep, repeat, for the rest of our lives? There's gotta be more to life than this. Surely we aren't supposed to be here to work to make other people rich,” one frustrated user wrote in the comments section on DownDetector.

“Coming home from work n excited to hop on ow2 n dbd for their halloween updates n playstation network is down,” said one on X.

“working a 10+ hour banger to come home and see Playstation Network down hurts the soul maaaan,” added another.

As of now, PlayStation has not issued an official response on the issue.