PlayStation Network is partially down
Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might look normal — but if you’re having issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network is not completely healthy right now. Sony’s Network Service Status page is all red, and a spike at Downdetector suggests the partial outage began roughly two hours ago at around 12PM ET.
Personally, we’re still seeing our friends online, can play games that require network authentication, download updates, and access the PlayStation Store, but there are a lot of “Can’t load data” error messages under player profiles, and the web version of the PlayStation Store isn’t loading.
And when I tried to fire up multiplayer in Hot Wheels Unleashed, I got this communication error: