Summary
ThePlayStationNetwork has just come back online. This comes after it wassuddenly taken offline yesterdaywith no reason given for the downtime.
This was just revealed over on thePSN status webpage, which shows that all PlayStation services should be back up and running. True enough, I just booted up my PS5 and was finally able to log back in, having not been able to all day.
PSN Is Back Online
For almost 24 hours, so many games were unplayable - even single-player titles
With PSN back online, you’ll once again be able to start parties, play online games, and boot up some offline titles that were locking people out, since they needed to access the internet to check if the user owned a licence to play them. Needless to say, almost 24 hours of being locked out of even supposedly offline titles has renewed the criticism against digital gaming, since this wasn’t an issue with physical media. Even GameStop got in on the fun.
Perhaps one of the most ridiculous side effects was that anyone who had just picked upa disc drive for their disc-less PS5, including the PS5 Pro, was unable to pair it to their console. This locked them out of playing any physical games until PSN came back online.
With so many games being unplayable without PSN, it goes to show how reliant we are on online servers now. When online services are pulled from consoles, many digital games become lost media overnight. Now, we’re facing the prospect of not even being able to play physical games, although that will be years away from now.
On the whole, fans were not overly pleased with Sony’s response to this. It’s unclear what happened, but in any case, we didn’t get much communication during the downtime. Some were even able to get into PSN some time ago, while others were not, making the situation even more confusing. We’ll have to wait and see if any compensation is thrown our way for the inconvenience, but there’s no word on that right now.
