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

In April 2011, PlayStation services stayed offline for 21 days due to an attack from hackers where 77 million accounts were compr

Sony’s PlayStation Network, which connects gamers online on its systems, experienced a massive outage that lasted about 24 hours.

Users on social media had complained that they could not access their games after the unexplained outage began on Friday night.

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

Users were having trouble accessing their online friends list, account management tabs, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Direct and even gaming.

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,