I have noticed this issue in two separate games that I've played and while it could be just the games themselves the fact that both games have effectively the same problem happens makes me question if something is wrong that maybe I'm not aware of.

In Street Fighter 6 and Guilty Gear Strive that are technically P2P fighting games I run into this issue where I will play against multiple people just fine and then after maybe 4-5 people BOTH GAMES will suddenly go into what I would describe as "matchmaking loops".

Both games will basically show that I am "Connecting" or "Checking Opponents Connection" indefinitely as if it can no longer match with another person. Either I have to outright restart the games or it would take an excessive amount of time to find another match.

Both these games are relatively popular for what they are so it shouldn't be a lack of opponents to play against. Secondly if I monitor to my personal connection, like say pinging google DNS I can see that it is stable and never going above like 45ms, so there isn't any fluctuations on my "raw connection". My speeds are 500/100 so I don't think it is a bandwidth issue either.

I have UPnP ON on the router so there shouldn't be any problems connecting to other people if I understand how that is SUPPOSED to work. But I did try to setup port forwarding as stated within whatever game support or Playstation said to do anyway. So I also have a static IP for my PS5 setup to do that.

So my question is what could be causing this type of problem and is there a solution? Cause it is one thing if it was happening just in a specific game but the fact that same pattern happens in both is a little suspicious.

System: PS5
Connection: Wired
Router: XR1000v2 (xr1000v2 1.1.0.22_2.1.34)
Modem: CM2000

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Multiple games matchmaking "messes up"?