On the evening of June 13th, there are problems with Sony’s network PSN. Players on PS4 are reporting issues and disruptions today. Bad timing: the E3 event is also affected by the service outage. Players are complaining about error code WS-37403-7.
This is the disruption: Since around 8:17 PM today, Thursday, June 13th, there have been outages with the PSN service. It affects all Sony platforms, including PS Vita, PS3, and PS4.
The PSN is not reachable, connection is not possible.
This is not an error that affects your console or your region individually; it is a worldwide outage of the PSN network.
This is reported by PlayStation on Twitter: The technicians are already working on a solution, it is stated on Twitter at 8:52 PM German time.
The US colleagues at Sony reported the same at 8:48 PM.
How long will PSN be down? There is currently no estimate as to when the PSN DNS issues will be resolved, and players in Germany and other parts of the world can resume their hobby of gaming.
PSN down also affects E3
This is particularly frustrating: The E3 event is currently ongoing. It is Thursday and the last day of the massive game fair.
The site Gamespot reports from Los Angeles that there are also problems with the games being shown at E3.
What else is broken today: Problems with the online game Fortnite have been occurring for several hours. A new mode was introduced today, which seems to have caused serious issues for the game. The new “Horde mode” has been temporarily disabled.
In Fortnite, there were matchmaking problems.
In Destiny 2, there are also maintenance works this evening, but they are actually planned without a server down situation.
What was the worst PSN outage? The worst PSN outage that we reported on MeinMMO occurred on January 4, 2016.
At that time, users on MeinMMO wrote over 1050 comments. It was a time when PSN was down more frequently and suffered from hacker attacks.
In recent months, however, PSN has seemed more stable.
One of the attackers who brought down the PSN with a hacker attack at Christmas 2014 was sentenced to prison.
We fans of online games are often particularly hard hit by the PSN outages.
Update 11:30 PM: There are now indications that the problems are slowly subsiding. The worst part of the PSN outage should be over.
You should check now if you can get back into your favorite games.
