Sony's PlayStation Network suffers hourslong outage

We're aware of a Verizon outage impacting customers in parts of the country. We are working to determine the cause and extent of these service disruptions,

the FCC wrote on X on Monday

Verizon engineers are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored. We know how much people rely on Verizon and apologize for any inconvenience some of our customers experienced today,

the company said on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday evening

All services are up and running."

The outage was resolved by morning in the U.S. and the Playstation Network website was updated with a message that said

At this time, the PlayStation Network (including PlayStation Store) may not be available,

said PlayStation's technical support on the social media site X

Bro I pay my ps plus every month and can't play after work

One frustrated subscriber commented

You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.”

The Sony PSN status support page stated

POV: Working hard all day just to come home and the Playstation servers are down."

A user while sharing a video of a man letting out his frustration in the shower wrote

Pretending that I don't care the playstation servers are down so they get fixed faster.

Another added