"All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service," reads a post on X from the official PlayStation support account @AskPlayStation. Five free days of service isn't a bad trade for an issue that lasted around half a day.

PSN is back after its downtime, and is offering a gift to affected players – but not every player will get it, and frankly, it's pretty meagre in the first place.

PlayStation Network was hit with an outage and remained offline for many users through most of Saturday leaving them frustrated.

PlayStation is making up for PSN going down by extending the subscriptions of all PS Plus users by a certain amount of time.

After nearly 24 hours, the issue preventing access to PSN on PS5 and PS4 has been resolved. Sony confirms compensation for PS Plus users.

Sony blamed an operational issue for the 20-hour service outage, which affected console gamers on the PlayStation Network over the weekend.

Unlike many of you, I didn’t realise that PlayStation Network was down for nearly a full day this weekend, because I was touching grass. On Saturday morning Singapore time, a friend complained to me that he hadn’t been able to play Marvel Rivals on his PS5 because of a PSN outage – on Sunday morning,