Gamers hoping to spend an evening in front of their PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 may be out of luck, as Sony’s gaming network is suffering a massive outage on Monday night.

The PlayStation Network is slowly coming back online for some users, after being down for roughly seven hours, preventing online access.

Sony apologised in a social media post without providing a reason for the outage. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sony's consoles are experiencing a PSN outage in October 2024, stopping PS5 and PS4 players from accessing PS Plus games and even some offline games.

PSN is currently experiencing issues on a global scale, with many essential online services unavailable. Sony is actively working to resolve these problems.

Update: The PlayStation Network is finally back up and running. The network appears to be recovering slowly so it might take time for some gamers who are

Fortunately, Sony has confirmed that its retail arm PlayStation Direct is not affected, so if you were holding off securing your PS5 Pro pre-order until now, fear not, you can still check out without issue. However, checking out on PlayStation Store is not possible for some users.

Likewise, they can't stream games on the web or on any PlayStation console. They can't do any window shopping, as well: Users can't browse or search for games, redeem vouches, make any purchases or download previously purchased titles.

The PlayStation Network is down in what seems to be a widespread outage. Sony is working to resolve the problem.