Xbox Live has been down for nearly two hours

Just as the folks at Sony preview the future with their latest State of Play event, Xbox players are unable to login at all, as the service is suffering a major outage. The latest update from 5 PM ET indicates Microsoft is working on the issue, but doesn’t provide any kind of ETA for when it will be resolved. According to the Xbox Live Status page, the outage started around 3:15 PM ET, and there’s no sign yet of anything getting better.

© Future Publishing via Getty Images Detail of the LED logo on a Microsoft Xbox Series X wireless controller, taken on October 9, 2020. (Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

We are aware that users may not be able to sign-in to Xbox Live at this time. Our teams are currently investigating to fix this issue. We will update here and on https://t.co/PzAdjUFMJj when we have more information to share!

— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) February 25, 2021