PSN just faceplanted right as the Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls open beta dropped, leaving tens of thousands of players staring at login errors while queues ballooned worldwide. DownDetector lit up starting around 12 PM BST, and the error code WS-116486-6 — "issue connecting to the server" — hit consoles hard, with some players retrying multiple times before any luck. Eurogamer and VGC both clocked the spike hitting the exact same morning the free beta went live on PS5, Steam, and Epic.

SteamDB showed the beta already peaking near 22k concurrent on PC alone earlier, a solid number for a tag fighter preview even before the weekend rush, and that’s without the full PS5 surge. The Tokon official account jumped on X to say they’re investigating and pushing updates to Discord, while official PlayStation channels stayed quiet longer than the community liked. Players on X flooded timelines calling it typical Sony timing, with some begging for beta extensions and others just roasting the digital-only future that locks them out the second servers sneeze.

This isn’t the first time PSN hiccups have gatecrashed a big launch window — remember the Helldivers 2 PSN drama — but watching a hot fighting game beta get kneecapped on day one hits different when the hype is this loud. Steam’s SF6 beta once hit 32k peaks; Tokon’s already showing it can move numbers without Sony’s network holding the keys. If the outage drags into the weekend, expect the fighting game crowd to remember who actually delivered the beta experience.