Tuesday, January 5, 2016

VICE Vs Video Games: The PlayStation Network Went Down for a Few Hours and People Lost Their Goddamn Minds

If you were trying to connect to PlayStation Network, PSN, on the (UK time) evening of January 4 you might have experienced some problems. I was in this very situation, trying to get a game or two of Rocket League going before turning in. Figured my WiFi was on the blink again, so I reset it a few times. Nothing. (Remember when you simply blew on the cartridge to make the game work?) And then, a familiar notification: "PlayStation Network is currently undergoing maintenance."

Nothing unusual about that. PlayStation was on the case.



You'd expect such an outage to last a few minutes. But an hour went by. Then two. Then came rumors that PSN would be down not for an evening, but potentially for a few days, until January 7.

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