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The online gaming provider PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage.
All services have been impacted since 2.21pm, according to the PlayStation Network status page, including account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video and PlayStation Store.
The outage means people are not able to sign in or create an account for the PlayStation Network, launch games, apps or network features, get PlayStation Video content or buy products in the PlayStation Store.
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PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and online platforms are affected.
Since 1.22pm, there have been nearly 5000 thousand reports of Playstation Network outages across the New Zealand, according to DownDetector, a site which monitors internet outages.
One PlayStation user RNZ spoke to said all game and store pages loaded blank and his console appeared unable to connect to the server.
The PlayStation Network said it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
