Wednesday’s Playstation 5 and Playstation 4 firmware update brought a lot of new stuff for gamers with Sony consoles. Including numerous difficulties connecting to the PSN.
Playing online today involves subscribing to subscription services, particularly when one owns home consoles. That’s especially true for Playstation users, whether they’re on the venerable PS4 or the famous PS5. This morning, Sony deployed a firmware patch for the console, a patch supposed to offer some ergonomic improvements for users, including the ability to create open and closed playgroups. Only then, a few hours after the deployment of the patch, many players began to complain of difficulties or even impossibilities of connecting to the Playstation Network, and particularly the players benefiting from the Playstation Plus subscription service.
Hi there! Thanks for reaching out. We are aware some Players are experiencing issues with PlayStation Plus functionality, we are investigating this immediately.
— Ask PlayStation UK (@AskPS_UK) March 23, 2022
At least that’s the opinion of Playstation UK Customer Services, who respond in the Tweet above: “Good morning ! Thank you for contacting us. We have indeed noticed that Players are suffering from problems with the Playstation Plus functionality, we are investigating the problem.“As a reminder, the Playstation Plus is required to play online on the majority of Playstation games. This is therefore a major outage. Many users have taken to social networks to show their difficulties. is what we can see on Downdetector, the site shows an exponential increase in problems connecting to the online service of Sony consoles. Even the PSN official website as it can also be called, reports great difficulties, especially in terms of games, Playstation Now and the Playstation Store. No doubt, the problem is size this is why it is likely to be settled in the next few hours.