Just as the folks at Sony are looking into the future with their latest State of Play event, Xbox players won’t be able to log in at all as the service is suffering a major outage. The latest update at 5:00 PM ET indicates that Microsoft is working on the problem, but is not providing any form of ETA for when it will be resolved. According to the Xbox Live status page, the outage started around 3:15 p.m. ET and there’s no sign of anything getting better yet.
Updating: As of 5:10 PM ET, the latest status page update says “we’re close to fixing the problem,” so hold on.
We are aware that users may not be able to sign in to Xbox Live at this time. Our teams are currently investigating to resolve this issue. We will update here and at https://t.co/PzAdjUFMJj when we have more information to share!
– Xbox support (@XboxSupport) February 25, 2021