Xbox Servers Down For Many, Right After PlayStation Outages

Xbox Server Issues Leave Users Unable To Play Their Games Published Jul 27, 2026, 7:34 AM EDT Sign in to your TheGamer account Xbox support has acknowledged widespread issues with the Xbox servers, as users are unable to log in to their accounts. Affected users say they can't play the games they bought digitally, effectively locking Xbox Series S owners out of doing anything. Many are furious that it took Xbox so long to acknowledge the outages, and hope that a fix is rolled out soon. Right now, there’s no word on how long the outages will last, meaning that many will have to cancel any plans they had to play their Xbox games today. Can’t Get Into Your Xbox Account? You’re Not Alone As per the Xbox Support website, issues with signing in and using the Xbox Store were reported at 4am BST. Xbox says that it started to work on repairs around noon, meaning that many players wouldn’t have been able to play anything late on Sunday. This comes shortly after a more widespread PSN outage left everyone unable to play anything online or access their digital libraries on PlayStation. This came just after PlayStation announced it is going all-digital from 2028, scrapping physical game releases and, presumably, making the PS6 a digital-only console without a disc drive. Should this happen in the PS6 era, no one would be able to play anything while servers are down. Xbox has not confirmed whether or not it will follow in PlayStation’s footsteps, but it already has its own digital-only console in the Series S. It’s also tried to push users towards Xbox Game Pass, a subscription service that will only work if the servers are up and running, so it’s clear that Xbox would prefer us to ditch physical copies as well. For now, affected Xbox users will just have to wait until they are able to log back in. At the very least, it doesn’t seem to have affected as many users as the PSN outage, but any disruption like this will be incredibly frustrating - and raises a lot of questions about how viable the all-digital future will be. Brand Microsoft Original Release Date November 10, 2020 Original MSRP (USD) $499 Operating System Proprietary (Windows-based) Processor Custom AMD 8-core Zen 2 3.8 GHz Resolution 720p - 4K UHD