Xbox suffers ‘major outage’ as servers go down for most players

Xbox has been struggling with technical difficulties today, with many players reporting that they have been unable to connect to Xbox Live (or “Xbox Network”) over the past few hours. You’re definitely not alone!

The Xbox team confirmed that this is a “major outage” with the following description:

“You may be unable to sign in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signing in, or have other related issues. Features that require you to sign in, such as most games, apps, and social activities, will not be available.”

If you are reading this a bit later and still have this problem, it is likely that the problem has not been fixed yet! You can check the status of the Xbox servers on the official website “Xbox Status”.

For those who are keen to play offline, we have a guide on how to play Xbox games offline elsewhere on Pure Xbox, but keep in mind that power You may experience problems if you haven’t previously set your Xbox as your “home” console.