The Essential plan has all of the basic features, including online play, PS Store discounts, free games each month, and cloud ...

As you can see from a snapshot below of the official PlayStation Network Service Status page, it does not look good, with issues affecting all facets of the ecosystem. Players have been reporting ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment has yet to release a statement about the problem, but it did update the PlayStation Network status page to show that several of its services weren't working.

Sony is aware of the ongoing issue, with the official PlayStation Network service status webpage stating that the outage started today (Oct 1) at 9.21am, though the timezone is unclear.