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Gamers Beware! PlayStation Catastrophe Still Plaguing PS3s
What's Going On?
The geek meltdown that began last night continues unabated this evening as Sony plods through its PlayStation quagmire, largely due to 2010 being mislabeled as a leap year. The ordeal started when clocks rolled over to March 1st and older (non-PS3 Slim) PlayStation owners began experiencing a myriad of bizarre and unfixable problems, including blocked access to the PlayStation Network, corrupted trophy data, and an inability to launch certain games and videos.
How to Handle the PS3 Situation:
While the official source of the fiasco remains a mystery, Sony believes "that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system," which may be linked to faulty leap year programming. The company also contends that the problem is isolated to older models, though apparently not all, and has recommended that owners of anything other than the slim consoles keep their PS3s turned off.Millions of frenzied gamers are undoubtedly fiending for some online action right now, but Sony said that it does hope to have everything resolved within 24-hours. (That's little consolation to the devoted consumers who spent hundreds of dollars for their consoles and routinely pay more than $50 for individual games. Some free swag from the PSN store as recompense, maybe?)
End in Sight?
Despite Sony's 24-hour claim, the problem may actually fix itself at midnight GMT tonight, so to at least help pass the time (if you appreciate intense geek-freakouts), the PS3 message boards are abundant with quality tech meme humor, including the obvious Skynet and late-Y2K jokes.Update: No official word from Sony yet, but we're seeing reports from Joystiq (and on Twitter and Facebook) that PS3s are back up and running. Stay tuned for more. [From: Engadget]
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Subscribe to commentsquestMar 2nd 2010 5:25AM
That Irving morales say's when is the money coming in?
anavrinfreakMar 2nd 2010 5:32AM
i noticed this when i put in fallout for the first time and it said i had a update to do but it didnt do it as i went to save for the first time i remember i earned no trophy and that the date was 1999 lol maybe it was a message that y2k is coming this year lol
MCBMar 2nd 2010 6:22AM
Pretty obvious that some XBOX cheese eater on this site is making a mountain out of a mole hill on this one. Since it's only a minor clock malfunctionand not a reiculously irresponsible "red ring of death" that the 360 has or still has for the last 2 years or so. This is something that could have easily been fixed without all the hoopla by simply checking online or on the Playstation network. Playstation rules. If and thats only if PS3 is in number 3 (probably because of price)then you can believe PS2 is number 1 of all time. When more cool games come out and the real power of the PS3 is more realized with games like GOW3 and possibly more classic exclusives like a new final fantasy 7 and possibly sequel games to that particular story which by the way is the best of them all I think PS3 will solify itself as number 1 in the next two years. Everybody I know that has a 360 wants a PS3 so I am at a loss as to some of the comments to some of the people on this board. I too own a 360 elite bu it is just collecting dust. Playstation is just a better over all system. You can argue until your playstation blue in the face because it (PS3) is the best system on the gaming console market today. Have a great day fellow gamers.
devin91Mar 2nd 2010 2:58PM
is ps3 regular working yet?
bounded222Mar 3rd 2010 7:40AM
ok...is it just me? or is ea online on ps3 still down? i can get on plastation home fine and go to the playstation store ok. but i try to connect to ea online and it sais cannot connect to ea online.