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

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

"All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service," reads a post on X from the official PlayStation support account @AskPlayStation. Five free days of service isn't a bad trade for an issue that lasted around half a day.

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

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

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,