An Xbox Network outage is preventing players from launching or buying games

Xbox consoles are temporarily a lot less useful for gaming.

What you need to know


The Xbox Network, previously known as Xbox Live, is currently experiencing a major outage affecting many players.
The outage includes players being unable to make any purchases, use Xbox Cloud Gaming, or even launch their digital games.
Xbox is currently investigating the issue, but there's no word on potential solutions, yet.


The Xbox Network is the infrastructure that powers most of the Xbox gaming experience, and outages affecting that network can drastically reduce the capabilities of the entire Xbox ecosystem. It's not often the service experiences major outages that affect huge swathes of players, but months of solid service is being interrupted today by a new breakdown in the Xbox Network.

We're aware that some users are unable to purchase games, launch games or start Cloud Gaming sessions. Our teams are investigating. Please keep an eye here and on our status page for updates. https://t.co...