They seem to be the outliers though or perhaps their bubble of unaffected bliss is about to get burst. As mentioned above, some people (lucky so-and-sos) can still log in just fine. It seems to the case that everyone's on the receiving end of whatever's taken the servers offline. Reports are coming in from Australia, from Spain, from Germany, as well as the US, and UK. Over on Twitter, if you search 'Xbox Live down', you can see the extent of the regions that are reporting outages. Currently, it's figuring out the best way to approach it "without causing additional impact." Down and out The latest update says that it has "isolated the problem to networking configuration issues". The MIcrosoft 365 Status Twitter account tweeted that the company is "investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services," and has subsequently "identified a potential networking issue". While the outage seems to sporadic, and far from all-encompassing – Mirror Gaming editor Nathan Bliss managed to access Xbox Live at the time of writing without any hiccups – Microsoft has acknowledged that something is afoot. Sony has been on the receiving end of this a number of times, with the most recent incident coming at the end of last year, and affecting FIFA 23 players. It's subsiding somewhat but people are still flocking to the site to report downed servers, and are voicing concerns that Microsoft has been hacked. Looking at Xbox Live on Down Detector shows a huge spike which reared up at around 7am GMT / 2am ET – that would've been around 11pm PT on Tuesday, January 24. Original story: Reports of outages at Xbox Live, Outlook, and Teams have been coming in droves, although not all users are being impacted, which is something at least. The Xbox Status UK page is now showing a "major outage" with issues covering:Īlthough I wouldn't panic the official Xbox Support Twitter account has tweeted that it's "aware that multiple Xbox services experienced intermittent issues" but goes on to say that "all services should be recovered at this time." So hang in there if you're still bumping up against server outages as it looks like they're being dealt with and should be up and running in no time. Update: Following reports of outages this morning that seemed to be getting cleared up, the Xbox server status has just been updated, while Xbox socials have now acknowledged the ongoing issue. Microsoft has confirmed that it's beavering away to fix problems affecting a number of its online services this morning.
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