PS5 has more than 50 million players, plus PS4, PS3, and PSV users, Sony has about 120 million users on PSN.These 120 million users rely on PSN (The PlayStation Network) to play and buy games.Unfortunately, PSN has been severely paralyzed recently and has been downtime for more than 24 hours.
Regarding PSN global disruption, it was reported yesterday.Sony also responded quickly and said it would investigate the matter, but no official statement has been issued since then.
According to the PlayStation status page, account management, PlayStation store, games and other services have been affected.In fact, everything on the PS4 and PS5 hosts has been affected.
Many users even report that they have lost access to digital games due to lack of online connections, leading many players to believe that physical media is still important in today's digital age.This may be a warning for the fully digital Xbox.
When the online server is paralyzed, most players will think that multiplayer games cannot be played or games that require a continuous internet connection.However, these downtimes have also been reported to affect digital single player games, as modern PlayStation consoles need to verify that you have a license to the game.
When trying to launch digital games on PS5, including single player games like "ReFantazio" and "Saving Kingdom 2", an error message appears: "Unable to use this content", "Unable to connect to the server toVerify your license”.
Even more strange, some players report that you can't even connect the optical drive on the all-digital version of the PS5 Slim or PS5 Pro right now, meaning that during these downtimes, the entire physical game library seems to be out of service."That's why real physical media and optical drive access is crucial," one player wrote.
For reference, there have been two major downtimes in PSN history, and they are much more serious than now. They were hacking incidents in 2011, which forced PSN to be shut down for 23 days, leaked data from more than 77 million users, and Lizard in 2014The Squad DDoS attack incident caused the server to go down for 3 days.After the former occurred, Sony gave a formal explanation about 5 days later; the latter gave feedback on the same day.
Sony was even forced to apologize after the matter was resolved, and the gaming giant later offered free games as compensation.Fans hope the situation is not going to be that bad right now.
Fortunately, according to the former CEO of SIE, the PS6 is expected to retain the optical drive and support physical discs.
