PSN is live again as millions of PS5 players go back online [Video]

UPDATE: Online services for PS5 are back again, after a lengthy outage that lasted for several hours and left many people unable to play their games.

Outages on PlayStation Network (PSN) aren’t uncommon but they usually only last an hour or so. This one started last night though and was only fixed at around 11am BST, so it was a relatively long one.

There’s been no explanation for why it took longer than usual to fix but it didn’t affect everyone, which is also relatively unusual. Whatever the problem is it’s fixed now and hopefully that means everything will be working as usual for the foreseeable future.

Original story:

The PlayStation network is down leaving millions of gamers unable to access their consoles.

A worldwide outage has been reported with a warning message showing up on the PlayStation Network website, Account Management, PlayStation Store and Gaming and Social pages. 

Users have described not being …