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Significant outages reported on PlayStation Network Friday night

In this photo illustration a mobile phone and a computer screen display the PlayStation and Sony logo in Ankara Turkey on February 27, 2020.
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A large amount of users reported outages on the PlayStation Network Friday evening, according to Down Detector.

The online network, which hosts gaming services for the PlayStation 5, saw a vast increase in outages reported at approximately 5:20 p.m.

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At 5:49 p.m., Down Detector logged over 68,000 reports of outages, with 78% of the reports related to the user's server connection.

An additional 19% of reports referenced login problems, while 3% of reports were related to the login function.

The cause of the outages was unknown. There was no further information available.

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