PlayStation Network goes down just in time for the weekend — "All services are experiencing issues"
THE SO WHAT
A full PSN outage heading into the weekend is a reminder that live-service gaming is only as good as its weakest infra link. If your product depends on always-on backends, rehearse failure modes and customer comms for peak windows — not just weekday business hours.
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