… Many are furious that it took Xbox so long to acknowledge the outages, and hope that a fix is rolled out soon. Right now, there’s no word on how long the outages will last, meaning that many will have to cancel any plans they had to play their Xbox games today. …
… Two network outages across both platforms in such close proximity. …
… Right now, outages like these cast doubt on a digital-exclusive future for gaming, as DRM and frequent license checks failing would render consoles completely useless. …
… That means anyone who has a PlayStation will have to regularly be connected to the internet if they want to play their games - and be beholden to the servers being online, as we saw with the recent PSN outage . …
… This statement came days after an unplanned PlayStation Network outage . …