Global Xbox Live outage leaves gamers offline for over 7 hours
Xbox Live experienced a significant outage yesterday, leaving users unable to access their accounts and play games for more than 7 hours. The disruption affected various platforms, including cloud gaming and Xbox consoles, with issues spanning sign-ins and disconnections.
The Xbox Live service experienced a significant outage yesterday, affecting users worldwide and preventing them from accessing their Xbox accounts and playing games. Numerous user reports indicate that the online gaming platform was inaccessible for more than 7 hours, hindering players from engaging in cloud and offline games that need logging into an Xbox account.
Acknowledging the issue, the Xbox Support team stated, ‘We are aware that some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live. We’re investigating.’ This disruption affected users across various platforms, including cloud gaming, Xbox One consoles, Xbox on Windows, Android devices, Apple devices, and web services.
The Xbox team clarified that users may encounter difficulties signing into their Xbox profiles, experience disconnections while signed in, or encounter other related issues. Features relying on sign-in, such as most games, apps, and social activities, were unavailable. In a similar incident in May 2022, Xbox faced a widespread outage that impacted various services, including Games & gaming, Cloud gaming & remote play, and Store & subscriptions.
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