… Update: Sony has acknowledged PSN is down and is having issues! https://t.co/XweIPuj7sY pic.twitter.com/EZ70Uebyb0 — Pyo 5️⃣ @mrpyo1 July 24, 2026 The PlayStation Network has been experiencing intermittent issues all morning, with many blaming the service disruption on an outage at Amazon Web Servi… …
… Later that night, after issues were resolved and the Xbox servers started working again, Van Vliet posted a lengthy explanation on Twitter about what happened in which he blamed the extended Xbox outage on an external licensing service that began failing, triggering a host of related issues. …
… We've heard back from our teams: The previously reported Xbox service connection issue should now be mitigated. …
… It’s basically the worst thing that could have happened to a live-service game that’s already fighting for its life. …