… Sony has yet to publicly acknowledge the PSN outage on its public-facing PlayStation Support account , but was providing updates through the aforementioned Service Status page. Over six hours after the outage began, that page showed things had returned to normal. …
Xbox explains what caused this week's 'unacceptable' major outage An executive pinned the blame on "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox." By Kris Holt July 28, 2026 11:55 am EST Many Xbox users were unable to play games on their consoles for a large chunk of Monday . …
… Xbox blamed the outage on issues with a licensing service outside of Xbox, and CTO Scott Van Vliet, who took over the role in May , called it an " unacceptable situation ." Van Vliet later told The Verge that the issue shouldn't have affected the ability to play disc games on Xbox consoles, explain… …
… Interestingly, the fiber optics themselves are immune to GCI-induced outages. …