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PlayStation 3 owners around the world were hit by a nasty glitch over the weekend, preventing them from accessing the console's online gaming and shopping service, the PlayStation Network. That alone would be inconvenient, but according to a number of complaints on official forums, titles like the newly released “Heavy Rain” were even unplayable offline and trophies won in other games have outright disappeared.
Interestingly, the problem appears to be affecting only the older PlayStation 3 consoles and not the newer so-called "slim" models that were recently launched. Sony acknowledged the problem and stated that they are working on a fix. While it made no mention of what is causing the problem, some suggest it might be a combination of DRM and firmware issues rather than a network outage.
Affected units have their system date set to Dec 31, 1999 or January 1st 2000 and the consoles are reportedly only able to play non-protected games. Any PlayStation 3 owners experiencing PSN problems today? Share your experience in the comments.
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First Toyota and now Sony,What happened to Japanese reliability ???
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Japanese reliability is only for people living in Japan not for the rest of the world
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I have a 250GB slim PS3, and when I download the fifa 2010 demo, after installing it disapeares, i found the file in the saved games past.
it´s not just on the non slim PS3
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I recently bought my PS3 around Black Friday, off Amazon. It is the new, slim version of the PS3. It is also facing PSN connection problems. It has been happening recently, and I don't think it is ONLY the old PS3's that are facing these problems, but perhaps even the slim as well.
-Tony
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Supra said:
I've got an original 20GB phat model that I upgraded to 120GB and haven't had any trouble. Was playing MAG until after midnight Sunday and again went on PSN this afternoon and bought Burnout Paradise bundle, no troubles.
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Dial 1-800-XBOX360.
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The Playstation Network failure is a disgrace to Sony.....This is one of many failures on the PSN....
Another example of crap service, is the failure and discontiuation of the online third person shooter game, called "The Club" (Sega). One day the online capability was just turned off for the Playstation, was it Sega or Sony who are responsible for that problem....Seems that "The Club" still works on the XBOX 360....
Whatever the situation my PS3 is looking very dusty and may stay that way once the XBOX 360 turns up....
Message left by PSN member: robot_cyborg
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hello ...
i laugh each time there's an 'issue' with PS3, whether it be a rumor about a price drop, otherOS removal & now with the recent apocalyPS3...
well i was worried but confident that the machine will go through this with limited damage, guess what it's a no damage to me. If i didn't read about the issue, i wouldn't even have known of it, for since Sunday morning i didn't switch on my PS3 & as usual during the 1st few days of a week, i rarely switch it on for any reason if i don't have some downloads 'en cours', then would also be on PS Life.
because of the articles, i went yesternite to check things up & got down because my phat ex-20G was sick, read & commented on various sites. when SONY said would be fixed within 24 hours, was sure about it & this morning, i switch it on, was OK ... so much ado about nothing.
yes i survived the apocalyPS3 & sure hope SONY finds a way to fix this definitely, wasn't any PSN bug, was with the RTC & bad coding of leap year.
wasn't an attack on PSN & certainly the PSN isn't bad, i don't understand why some would always whine about it, i'm not a fanboy, i love games on PC & PS3.
SONY will not remove otherOS, this wasn't a test ...
The machine is one of the best in terms of reliability, there can be any issue with electronics, but statistically this isn't a 54% fail rate with no solution than change it.
now i'm sure some are feeling weird about what they said, too late & even if a lot were wearing a mask, you should at least take in consideration that you freaked out....
LOL, i did!
thank you japanese SONY for such a great console, but please no more of this & don't worry people will always whine even if you give them a golden palace & cloudy bed & pillows ...
cheer out!
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So, PS3 suffers from the Y2K bug, 10 yrs after it... I guess that the reliability of it (and sony) is going down the drain.
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All fanboyism aside.... i´m really sad to see Sony in such bad shape, they used to be great in consoles today they are in 3rd place, used to be number 1 on TV, now they are just one of the bunch, their laptops don´t sell great, handheld music devices pretty much died since the ipod.... they have the brand to drive innovation but they just wont take risks and everyone else already caught up and is passing them on almost every single area of their business.
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