Incoming PlayStation 3 Hotfix; ETA 24-Hours
Starting yesterday, thousands if not millions of PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide began experiencing strange errors. Many users reported that their PS3 was unable to connect to the PSN and that the clock was reset back to dates as early as 1998. Since then, chaos has erupted as consumers worldwide are angered at what many are calling the “APOCALYPS3″. Thankfully, it seems that Sony have some fixes coming soon.
Sony have responded to consumer’s concerns over the latest issues with the old model PlayStation 3 consoles. Sony apparently have confidence that it’ll be resolved within the next 24-hours.
We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.
Jeff Rubenstein from the PlayStation Blog also recommends that consumers don’t log-in to their PlayStation 3 console until the issue is resolved. Jeff Rubenstein posted the following on his Twitter account:
Summary: PS3 slim is good to go, older models should be fine within 24 hrs. Leave em off until then.
According to a variety of sources, the issue is caused by an issue with the internal clock on the older model PlayStation 3s. It seems that PlayStation 3 Slim owners have not been affected which raises some questions. At any rate, stick around on PlayStation LifeStyle as we update you on anything that develops.
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27 Responses to “Incoming PlayStation 3 Hotfix; ETA 24-Hours”
Sounds like it is going to fix itself…?
Man this really bites. Like others, this really upsets me, but there is no point in “You better fix my shit Sony or else!” Fortunately I only tried to play one game, the GoW collection, and it worked, but i have a feeling i missed a few trophies. Oh well, lets just hope this gets fixed as soon as they say.
Leaving it on or off won’t change anything since the clock changes automatically when it’s in sleep mode. So when the leap “day” hit the system didn’t know how to handle it.
I checked my fat today and it’s screwed (logged in with my Japanese account) changing the date and resetting did nothing.
I have read about some people removing the battery on the motherboard and resetting the date after and their system now works.
This is a major screw up that may really hurt Sony in the end.
It’s called a leap year Sony…duh.
Looks like yet another day before I get to finally start Heavy Rain.
Within 24 hours?! That’s a standard disclaimer if I ever saw one. They have no clue how to fix this. If they did they would have fixed it by now, or said “Within 12 hours or less”.
I can’t go 24 hours without my system. Unless I’m not home, but I AM! I really hope it gets fixed soon
Oh well. here’s something to watch in the meantime for a fix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-vdhgkC6o
l”l just be watching movies until then
“Within 24 hours?! That’s a standard disclaimer if I ever saw one. They have no clue how to fix this. If they did they would have fixed it by now, or said “Within 12 hours or less”.”
Wow seriously, is that some sort of punishment? Oh how did ever live without games for 24 hours. If it’s any new games you’re antsy to play, sure, be raged, otherwise that’s unnecessary.
I have a PHAT PS3 and it is working fine all the trophies I got yesterday are still there. Good thing I got my first platinum trophy on Burnout Paradise before this all happened. But I feel bad for everyone else who wasn’t as lucky. Hope it get’s fixed soon.
man .. i hope this doesnt go on until my birthday (march 6!!)… it be a real bummer if it didnt get fixed by then
oh well. i just hope all of my trophies for mw2 are still there tommorow.
well atleast all the systems affected arent dead in the water. Thank you slim!
everyone seems to be only worried about trophies , what about things that matter ? things that cost money to buy ? I am unable to play any psn title I’ve bought or use dlc – over $800 worth of unusable stuff .
I also can’t play any music on my system because it says ‘ copyright information invalid ‘ – this is music copied from my CDs , not from pirated sources — and blu-ray movies won’t load because they try to get copyright validation too for some reason ‘ even with the intetnet connection off – basically I have a second dvd player instead of a ps3 .
that’s what has me a little pissed off — I’ll patiently wait another day but this really needs to get fixed
At least I got something to occupy myself till then.
hello …
Please SONY, a quick fix would be most welcomed, my console is sick & me too
cheers!
After the firmware update that required an immediate fix so people could play Uncharted, and now this…I think some personnel changes need to be made at Sony. I’m starting to have serious questions about their competence.
yeah all my MAG trophies are gone sony do something about it! What do you mean I’ve never bought a copy of MAG of course I have now give me all my MAG trophies and my platinum!
I decided to use this as time to play Grandia 2, yay backwards compatibility.
………..and now we wait…………
So when will we start calling this Y3K?
hmmm Your 3 Killed? Why3K?
I’m gonna trademark that before everyone steals it…lol.
@ Robotron
We’re still a long way away from Y3K. It’s Y2K10… Leap Y2K10 really.
@gamingfriek, my bday is also March 6th!
Man, that was lame. I came home was like resetting my wireless over and over again because It thought that maybe my wireless adapter was at the end of it’s life. Well atleast it’s not that but I wish I would have gotten a email from PSN earlier this morning instead of hearing about it on PSLS. Good looking out though cause I was about to start gettin a rage sweat going. Now I can put my Xbox to use and watch some Netflix and try to get my PS3 off my mind for awhile. I hope to goodness my PS3 didn’t sustance and real damage. We’ll see, because I hate the whole process of sending my system in and hoping with fingers crossed that the postal service doesn’t get sticky fingers.
@smokey_vols
Kool …. we’re birthday buddies.. haha . jus kidding
happy b-day smokey
thtguy Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 6:25 PM
evryone who is pissed jus chill it’s a glitch by an electronic bound to happen sometime so jus relax I got faith in Sony and all u should too
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