PlayStation Network is back after hours of partial outage

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might have looked normal — but if you had issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network was not completely healthy. Sony’s Network Service Status page was red for hours, after a partial outage began at roughly 12PM ET. By 4:30PM ET, service had reportedly been restored, and it’s all green now.
At the time, we could still see our friends online, play games that require network authentication, down