PlayStation Gives Reason For PSN Outage; Offers Amends

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PlayStation Gives Reason For PSN Outage; Offers Amends

Sony has given an actual reason for the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that brought the service down for roughly 20 hours on Friday and Saturday.

In a post late Saturday night on

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, the company blamed the outage on an “operational issue”. Specifics on the issue weren’t given nor was anything said about preventing another issue. However, PlayStation did, once again, apologize for what happened.

“Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue,” they said. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience.”

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As a make good for nearly a full day of service being lost, PlayStation is giving all PlayStation Plus members five extra days. The extension will automatically be added to all plans.

The PSN originally went down on Friday, February 7 around 6pm ET. The outage impacted users across the globe, taking down the ability to sign in, play online, and even access the PlayStation Store. It started to come back around 3:40PM ET on Saturday, February 8.

As the service was offline, the company didn’t provide any updates to players aside from an acknowledgement of PSN being offline hours after it went down. The next update came to state that service was restored.

What do you think about the reason PlayStation gave for the PSN outage? What about receiving five days of PlayStation Plus for the troubles? Let us know down below, and join more discussions in the official Insider Gaming forums.

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