Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 Struck by Leaderboard Problems

Batman: Arkham Knight on PlayStation 4 is having some issues with leaderboards, according to a growing number of reports from players.

Posting on the game's forum, on Reddit, and on Sony's community help pages, numerous players have said the game displays an error message instead of scores.

"A connection to PlayStation Network cannot be established. Gameplay will continue without Leaderboard access until a connection is made," reads the message.

The leaderboard is part of Batman: Arkham Knight's Gotham's Greatest meta-game, which collects and displays performance data in order to rank the best Batmen.

Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's last big game release, Mortal Kombat X, also had similar problems immediately following its launch.

Batman: Arkham Knight's PC problems, meanwhile, has caused far more significant issues, leading its publisher to suspend sales on Valve's Steam platform and ask UK retailer Game to stop selling physical copies.

Rocktsteady Studios has said it supported Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's decision to pull the PC version from Steam and has its best engineers working to fix the game's problems.

"This is something that Rocksteady takes very seriously," it said. "We are working closely with our external PC development partner to make sure these issues get resolved as quickly as possible."

Graphics card giant Nvidia is also offering its QA and technical assistance to help address the PC versions problems. Nvidia promoted numerous graphical enhancements that would be available to Batman: Arkham Knight players on PC using one its graphics cards.

Additionally, it offered a free copy of the game with every purchase of its GeForce GTX 970 and 980.