Xbox Experiences Major Outage Affecting Both Digital and Disc-Based Games
An extended outage affecting Xbox services began on Sunday evening, impacting users' ability to play both digital games and disc-based titles. The issue also prevented login attempts, app launches, and access to the Xbox store. While some users could still launch their owned digital games, others encountered error codes when trying to start Game Pass-linked content. As of Monday afternoon, Microsoft reported that things were slowly improving but acknowledged the long-running nature of the problem. Xbox support indicated on social media that teams are investigating multiple angles and working hard to resolve the issue. The outage highlights potential risks in a system where even physical game copies require online authentication. This incident follows recent major layoffs at Xbox, announced earlier this month.
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