Sony to offer PlayStation Plus users five-day extension after global outage

Sony said on Sunday that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a global outage disrupted the PlayStation Network (PSN) for about 18 hours on Friday and Saturday.

“Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience,” the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant said in a post on X on Sunday, without specifying the cause of the outage.

The outage, which began late Friday, left users unable to sign…