PSN outage hit players
A major PlayStation Network outage on Saturday knocked gaming and social features offline for roughly two hours and logged more than 14,000 incident reports at peak, disrupting Elden Ring players trying to access Nightreign. (techradar.com) (pushsquare.com)
Downdetector activity tied to the outage surged shortly after 9:00 p.m. CET and reached its highest activity at about 21:52 CET on March 21, according to monitoring summaries. (notebookcheck.net)) Downdetector’s US feed registered a separate spike of more than 5,500 user reports during the incident’s peak window. (pushsquare.com)) Sony’s PlayStation Service Status page first flagged “Gaming & Social” as impacted and was later updated to show “All services are up and running” as connectivity began returning. (pushsquare.com)) Players widely reported encountering error codes NP-104602 and WS-114119-7, which blocked cloud save syncs, trophy updates, authentication, and Store access during the disruption. (msn.com)) Community threads on Reddit and other forums collected thousands of reports from North America, Europe and Japan, and users also reported connection failures in titles including Overwatch 2, MLB The Show and Diablo 4. (ibtimes.com.au)) As of the evening of March 21, Sony’s public response remained limited to status-page updates and rolling restorations, with no detailed cause or formal post‑mortem released. (techradar.com))
