All PS Plus members to get 5 extra days of service for free following PSN outage

The PlayStation Network recently suffered from its biggest down period in well over a decade – second only to the infamous 2011 PSN outage. While not nearly as severe (lasting less than 24 hours), Sony has offered an apology to players, giving all PS Plus subscribers 5 extra days of service for free.

On the 8th of February, all PSN services went down for just under 24 hours, with players unable to access the PlayStation Store, download games or even play certain titles in some instances (such as Black Ops 6 due to its always-online requirement).

While not quite as severe as the infamous 2011 outage (which saw PSN go down for 3 whole weeks), Sony has confirmed that many of those affected will be compensated, taking to Twitter to write:

“Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service.”

While 5 days is next to nothing timewise, as mentioned the PSN servers were down for less than 24 hours, and so it is somewhat of a fair compensation. Hopefully such an outage won’t occur for at least another 10 years.

KitGuru says: What did you think of the outage? Did it impact you? Is 5 days of free PS Plus enough? Let us know down below.

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