PSN down as gamers take to social media with complaints
PlayStation Network today suffered the first outage of 2016 even as angry fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express their frustration at not being able to either login or play games online. The PSN went down exactly at 11.15 am EST and for past half an hour the hashtag #PSNDown on Twitter is filled with angry tweets from the gamers.
https://twitter.com/PTChrisO/status/684049702053097473
@AskPlayStation #psn is down in the Netherlands. Cannot login on the web site either. Please solve this asap! #PS4 #psndown
— Dennis (@nachtheerser) January 4, 2016
Was gonna play @TESOnline and finish my lore books but #psnDown
— DemonwrathDeathreign (@VayneCeasar) January 4, 2016
#psndown can't play with my friend and we've been waiting for this day for a week ):
— nicolerenee (@NCouture19) January 4, 2016
The outage tracking website, Outage Report shows massive disruptions in the network in the United States and Europe.
Surprisingly Playstation’s own status tracking website, status.playstation.com/en-us/ shows that all services are up and running. This may one of the reasons the PlayStation users are pissed at Sony as seen from the tweets.
Another outage tracking website, Down Detector showed similar status about PSN being down.
The reason for this first major outage of 2016 is not known as of yet. We are reaching out to Sony and PSN to clarify the status of the network and will keep the post updated.
Update #1 : The PlayStation Network Status page now shows that it is experiencing some problems, however no comments have yet been issued by Sony.
#psndown pic.twitter.com/yQca9Ngk4N
— Itzz SupergirlGaming (@Madam__Mystery) January 4, 2016
Update #2 Even as many sites are reporting that PSN is down for maintenance, we strongly believe it to be subjected to a DDoS attack. As of yet we havent been able to confirm this, however, the Norse Map seems to suggest there is heavy attack on US West Coast from Karlskrona in Sweden.
Even the PSN status page seems to confirm our theory as it mentions that Sony engineers are busy resolving this issue.
Because PoSN sucks. Always has.
You are either a moronic fanboy or a troll… Grow up.
You are either a moronic fanboy or a troll… Grow up
Btw, I posted that 2 times just to make sure you get the point.
Go suck a nut “TRUTH” . . Xbox servers don’t hardly ever crash because there, traffic is so much lower. Sony actullyy gets a challenge in trying to have their servers stay up and running. Smh.
The only difference between psn and any other service is that psn doesn’t fix the initial problem of ddos’ing. Other than that, there’s little to no difference. Get your facts straight before you hate.
Prove me wrong
Why don’t you kindly explain to everyone how to prevent ddos attacks since you seem to think you are some kind of super genius… Oh yea you really can’t.
Simple bro, u just buy a $10 router from computer shop and turn on firewall option 😉
I don’t think a $10 router firewall would protect psn from ddos attacks, all a ddos attack does is simulate a bunch of people logging on at once making psn go down due to high traffic, it’s not actually hacking.
It would be one thing if you were being blocked from their useless online games. But PSN being down *ALSO* means you can’t run Netflix. That’s right; a service that you aren’t even buying from Sony, a service you aren’t paying Sony *any* money for, yet they build in a dependency for PSN into it. BONEHEADS.
I *personally* don’t use this PoS-3 for gaming (that’s the wife and daughter), but I *do* like to use it for streaming video. I wouldn’t be surprised if even locally-installed-and-run games (or even games that only run off disk) are blocked from running.
Seems this “article” from The Onion perfectly describes Sony (https://tinyurl.com/o38jbo5 *warning*, NSFW, language).
I ran Netflix all day on my ps4 just fine when psn was down.
come on sony, i can eat faster than you guys are working, like come on. work fast, i cant wait to play gta online.
I’m wondering when it’s gonna turn on maybe around, 5:30 possably!?
Playstation network is down because they do not care about consumer privacy nor their accounts. How does it feel playstation??? Pay up sucka.
It wasn’t really that bad , psn wasn’t even down a full 24 hours. Also, what are you referring to by saying “pay up”