If you’re trying to play online games on your Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, or even Xbox 360 right now, you might be running into some issues, as Xbox confirmed there was a “major” Xbox Live outage on its status page as of 6:57PM ET.
“You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems,” according to a status message. “Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won’t be available.” For players who could sign into their accounts on consoles, online-connected games couldn’t connect and showed their own Xbox sign-in errors, while other people reported issues with features like remote play.
As of 8:20PM ET, Xbox also says the outage affects the Xbox Store and subscriptions. “You may not be able to buy games to own right now,” according to a status message.
“We are seeing improvement to sign-in, but impact to matchmaking and completing purchases continues,” the Xbox Support account said on X at 8:06PM ET.
This outage follows another from earlier this month that prevented users from playing online games and lasted several hours.
Update July 18th, 8:19PM ET: Added details from Xbox.
