This is why

The attacks ceased shortly after Lizard Squad tweeted that they stopped them. Basically they’re dealing with the aftermath: all the consoles trying to reconnect, trying to log in, trying to access content. It’s a kind of scenario these game networks have never had to deal with before, and I don’t think they have the capacity to have all these consoles making their requests at the same. Their own consoles are DDoSing their own network

Hope this helps