Xbox goes down
It was reported by Microsoft that Xbox Live services are currently down in a major outage, impacting users worldwide and preventing everyone from launching or buying games. As per user reports, the online gaming platform has been out for at least 3 hours, blocking everyone from playing both offline and cloud games. “We’re aware that some users are unable to purchase games, launch games or start Cloud Gaming sessions. Our teams are investigating,” the Xbox Support stated. The Xbox status page claims Xbox services impacted include games and gaming, cloud gaming, remote play and store and subscriptions. This unfortunate outage affected multiple platforms and it applies to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One consoles, Android devices, Apple devices, Xbox on Windows and cloud gaming.
“You may have problems playing your digital games right now. You may not be able to buy games to own right now,” the Xbox status page reads. “You may have trouble starting cloud games or be unexpectedly disconnected from a game after it begins.” After few hours, the Xbox team stated that users should once again be able to launch and play their games in Xbox consoles and through Cloud gaming, the cause behind the outage was not addressed or explained.
