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PlayStation Network Goes Down Worldwide as AWS Outage Cascades Across Gaming Services
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
PlayStation Network went down globally for six+ hours as an AWS US-West-2 networking failure cascaded across Sony's infrastructure, locking players out of digitally purchased games requiring licence verification. The incident exposed the fragility of digital-only game ownership ahead of Sony's planned end to physical disc production in January 2028.
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If you're building for console players, your entire business can vanish when your infrastructure provider's Oregon router fails. Build an offline-first game layer now, or your customers will buy discs—and Sony's stopping making them in 18 months.
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