PlayStation 3 Leap Year Bug Is History [UPDATE]
Well folks, it looks like the great PlayStation 3 leap year bug of 2010 is history. Hosts of PS3 owners (particularly those with the original Phat PS3′s) are reporting that the PSN is up and running just fine. In addition, games and add-ons purchased from the PlayStation Store are now playing just fine and trophy syncing has returned to normal.
So far there has no been no official announcement from Sony regarding what caused these issues, but most of us have been lead to believe that it had something to with the PS3′s internal clock. So far the general consensus indicates that everyone’s issues have been resolved, but we should probably wait for the “all clear” from the guys upstairs before we come out of our PSN-withdrawn vegetative states.
I can personally attest that everything is running smoothly here. My 60GB (Now 250GB) PS3 is up and running without any problems. Anything and everything hardware or network related has returned to normal, so feel free to go ahead and adjust your date and time to their appropriate place, it’s safe now.
Let’s have a group sigh of relief. Those few hours weren’t THAT bad now, we’re they? Who am I kidding, of course they were! Stay tuned to PlayStation LifeStyle for any further details regarding today’s events.
[UPDATE] Patrick Seybold, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media for PlayStation has just released an official announcement on the Official US PlayStation Blog regarding the incident.
Patrick states the following:
We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally.
If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users are able to adjust time settings manually or via the internet. If we have new information, we will update you through the PlayStation.Blog or PlayStation.com.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Well, there’s our official confirmation, it looks like we were right all along…
39 Responses to “PlayStation 3 Leap Year Bug Is History [UPDATE]”
Y2k is over! Yeaaaay!
yup… its up
Lol now the psn will crash due to everyone logging on to it at the same time :s lol – im too scared to try mine might wait another hour or so lol
I can confirm this…I heard a rumor about it being fixed once the system clock moved to March 1st, which meant 12 am GMT, so I just turned it on and it signed in right away!!! YAY!!! See you all again when this happens in 2014!!! Another even year that isn’t a leap year!!! Just kidding, we’ll probably be moving into the PS4′s by then.
CELEBRATION!
LOL @ giese
It looks like they were just waiting for the phantom leap day to disappear (which it did as the day switched at GMT…..I checked before and after).
The question now remains will it ever come back another year?
I would bet the a firmware update down the road will fix this issue but since it only affected “Phat” PS3′s then it maybe related to the “Other OS” option that was only in the older PS3′s. Something is a little Phishy in Tokyo…
ffs. I lost all my dragon age origins trophies. i’ve playd like forever to get them and now i don’t have them. I am not playing through one more time. I require a lot from sony now. I want my trophies back. A free platinum would be nice
As far as I can tell, my backwards compatible 60GB PS3 never suffered from the problem. I came home from work on Sunday to find the web abuzz with this Y2K10 bug and checked my PS3, it was still happily Folding like I left it, bringing up the in-game(in-app?) XMB showed that the date and time were both just fine, but with all the howling about how we shouldn’t use our PS3s I decided to err on the side of caution and chose not to exit Life With Playstation, just to be on the safe side. I still don’t get why all this hooplah happened yesterday and not today. If there was gonna be a phantom leap day, wouldn’t it have happened the day AFTER February 28th?
Holy piss, that programmer is totally on the streets after that bomb. Guess it was a good thing I was out of town and sans ps3 since this bomb hit. I’m hesitant to fire her up,I’m withot Internet access right now, but I should be ok right?
RIP Fat PS3s: 2006-1999
@SPD55
you mean the hypervisor
And jumper, it did, just not in our time zone. It functions ( and in this case – malfunctions) on gmt. The time zone is ahead of ours, that’s why it’s over now, even though we’re technicallly still livng in this phantom Feb 29.
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They say that some peoples systems got brick well atleast they are saying that on Attack of the Show, mine is fine now. I hope I don’t have to deal with this crap every year that isn’t leap year. This is a bunch of bull. But the media is having field day in the US, man do I hate how 360 fanboyed the US is.
I guess I picked the right weekend to be away on business. I have a slim anyway. Whatever. I hope everyone’s unlocked trophies aren’t a problem for them.
So this was just a problem with the online stuff? I thought it was something to do with the internal clock screwing up all the fat PS3′s, even if they weren’t connected to the net. Here I was afraid to turn mine on even though it seemed to be working perfectly.
Well, good job Sony for getting the problem fixed so fast. Now I might suggest that their next project could be to make sure stupid stuff like this doesn’t happen any more.
This should totally be the most popular clip amongst PS3 fans right now. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Lx7chd5X8
Man, I learned just how much I love my PS3 during those 24 hours of pain!
@Jonathan Leack
indeed. We take the ps3 for granted with its free access to play online and multimedia functions
So much for Patcher saying it’s going to take over a week to fix this, that guy is such a tool.
YEAH BABY!!!!! Rock on!!
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww much better i thought armagedon had occured thanks for all the shoulders lol
I was playing Heavy Rain yesterday while all of this was going on, I earned my last trophy around 5:15 PM and didn’t get to sync it, I quit playing around 7:30 and thought it was odd that I hadn’t earned any more trophies. My question is this, the trophies I earned but didn’t get to sync…are those gone? And what about the trophies that I “earned” but didn’t get the trophy “ding” for… are the only trophies I’m going to have are the synched trophies? Or if I start the game up once I get home, will all those I earned that didn’t pop up before pop up and I can sync them? If they don’t come up, will I have to delete my save and start over? I’m worried if they dont’ come up, the same will think that I earned them already and not grant them to me even if I replay the chapters. Can anyone confirm what to do here?
looks like i have seen it all. Microsoft has the money to buy TIMED BUGS on a competitors consoles…….. what else can they do now :/
Just wondering if all those people out there who were going to change their pre-orders to the 360 versions still will? As a 360 owner let me give you some advice……don’t. The less gameplay the 360 sees the longer it will last.
So if the older PS3′s think its a leap year every two years. Won’t this problem come up again in the year 2014?
LMAO my ps3 was always working, been playing all weekend and today
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It’s so funny that you post this article and I am watching the news right now. They are reporting that this issue is still current.
lol Sony still has no idea how this happened it just fixed itself LOL.
So if I enter February 28th 2010 on my PS3, it will happen again? Sounds like it’s more than a clock error! Here I was thinkin I had the best of the best, 60 gig.
At least this won’t happen again in 2012. That is a leap year. But I’ll wait for its return in 2014, if the world hasn’t ended by then.
hello …
I confirm, it’s back to normal …
If someone could see that smile on my face, would be scared LOL
SONY better go though all these issues & find a fix, don’t want to be scared again.
cheers!
@draco,if u enter 28th Feb,2010 again nothing will happen.Because u are just resetting the OS clock,not the internal one.So,it will count March 1 next.
@Mike,yes dude.I think it’ll strike back in 2014.But Sony can include a cmos flash in the next firmware update to clean the mess up.They got only 4 years in hand,hurry up sony for FW 3.20.
Anyway,we should be glad that its over.Nothing was lost.and i heard Sony’s stock got high Up.
sorry MS…you still take the award for worst console hardware;RROD
We had an earthquake here in chile so we just got electricity back, so I didn’t even know about this until now.
some luck, ah?
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@ashik82, Sony stock went high up because the whole world made a big deal about the 8001050F error. Which fixed itself, for now! How many computers do that? Not even the 360 fixed it’s red ring of death on it’s own.
As for it being over, I wonder how many other error codes exist that PS3 owners’ don’t know about!