Xbox service is down, with outages meaning players can't play any digital or physical games, after similar PlayStation Network issues last week

Xbox services are experiencing a major outage, preventing users from accessing digital and physical games. This follows similar recent issues with the PlayStation Network and has sparked concerns regarding the reliability of digital-only gaming models.
Xbox's live status page currently shows the 'account & profile', 'store & subscriptions', 'games & gaming', and 'apps & mobile' services are all down with a 'major outage'. Other parts of the online infrastructure, such as multiplayer and cloud-based games, as well as some functionality like sharing screenshots and captures, are seemingly untouched by the outage.
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