PlayStation Network outage latest – live updates as PSN remains down

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However frustrated you may be, spare a thought for user Bubbleigh526 on Reddit – who reports that they “finally saved up enough money to buy a PS5 yesterday and when we got it home we couldn’t even log in.”

Now that’s really bad timing.

It’s understandable that PS5 (and PS4) gamers are upset – because many will have a PS Plus subscription, and it’s not a cheap service to subscribe to.

As you’ll see in our full guide to the PlayStation Plus Tiers, even the cheapest Essential tier costs $9.99 monthly / $24.99 quarterly / $79.99 yearly in the US, £6.99 monthly / £19.99 quarterly / £59.99 yearly in the UK and AU$11.95 monthly / AU$33.95 quarterly / AU$95.95 yearly in Australia.

The Extra tier, meanwhile, is $14.99 monthly / $39.99 quarterly / $134.99 yearly, or £10.99 monthly / £31.99 quarterly / £99.99 yearly in the UK, or AU$18 monthly / AU$54.95 quarterly / AU$169.95 yearly in Aus.

And finally, the Premium offering will set you back $17.99 monthly / $49.99 quarterly / $159.99 yearly in the US, and £13.49 monthly / £39.99 quarterly / £119.99 yearly in the UK (Australia has a slightly different set up for the top tier).

We have no idea whether Sony will refund anyone for the outage, but you can see why people who are paying more than $150 a year might be angry at not being able to access the service.

This is far from the first – or worst – PSN outage of course.

A quick flick through the TechRadar archives turns up a PSN outage in October 2024, a big problem in May 2022 and one in February and March 2021.

But the biggest by far occurred in April and May 2011, when a massive hack – or “an “external intrusion” – saw servers down for a whopping 23 days. Here’s one of our reports from the time, if you’re interested in a bit of tech history.

I have of course reached out to Sony for any info they can provide, and will share any news with you as soon as I have it.

Though I should also admit that as the proud owner of a Steam Deck OLED, the PSN outage will not be impacting me personally. Sorry.

As you might imagine, PlayStation gamers are not happy about the situation.

In fact, that’s an understatement; thousands have flocked to Reddit and X to share their frustration at the outage – and the lack of communication from Sony.

Sony has provided an update on X/Twitter – but not a particularly helpful one.

The main PlayStation account and North American support account both posted the same message, stating that “some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” but there were no further details given beyond a link to PSN Service Status page, and there have been no messages since.

We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN.For more details: https://t.co/NJX2xGusZMFebruary 8, 2025

Open up any of those sections and you’ll see that the last update there was filed at midnight today – which I assume is midnight ET, so nearly 12 hours ago.

The fact that there’s been no change to the page since then suggests that this is a big problem – and one that may not be fixed for some time.

So what is Sony saying about it all? Not very much, unfortunately.

As you can see above, the official PSN Network Service Status page is a sea of red, with the rather understated message “Some services are experiencing issues” written above them.

The UK version of Downdetector tells a similar story – and indeed it appears to be a worldwide problem.

We first realized there were problems with PSN when Downdetector outage reports spiked at around 6pm ET / 11pm GMT yesterday.

The graph below shows the huge volume of reports on the US version of the site:

Hello and welcome to our PlayStation Network outage live blog. I wish I had good news to report but right now the service remains down.

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