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PlayStation outage meant some PS5, PS4 owners couldn’t start games or access multiplayer

PlayStation outage meant some PS5, PS4 owners couldn’t start games or access multiplayer

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The outage happened just hours after the release of Stray, the cat game

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The cat from Stray.
The cat from Stray.
Image: Annapurna Interactive

The PlayStation Network experienced some issues on Tuesday. At the time, Sony’s PlayStation status page said that says that things like launching games, buying, downloading, and browsing games, and signing in to your account may have been impacted.

The issues popped up just a few hours after the release of Stray, the futuristic adventure game starring a cat. Sony didn’t give a specific reason as to why there were problems, so I’m going to place the blame for the outage squarely on the cute kitty. The cat wreaked havoc.

It’s not clear how widespread the issues were. Things seemed to work fine on my PS5, though I saw a lot of people report issues on Twitter, and there was a spike of user reports of problems on Downdetector. Maybe someone over at Sony fed the cat to get things fixed.

Update July 19th, 3:27PM ET: Sony says that PlayStation services are back up and running.