Well come on now, it's a pretty epic fuck up. You just shouldn't have complete widespread system crashes from every single unit like this.

3/1/2010 2:27:34 PM

and it might not be a 24 hour fix.

i lol at the fact that it seems they are banking on this idea that at 6pm Central the problem will fix itself.

3/1/2010 2:40:13 PM

lately between fallout 3, mw2 glitches, and this i have learned to have no faith anymore

3/1/2010 2:41:42 PM

^^Why? This is hardly the first time something like this has happened and in the past, it has just fixed itself.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9124638/Zune_chokes_on_leap_year_bug

Most likely the problem will go away when internal clock moves to valid date, and Sony will announce they "fixed" the problem for all the plebes, then release a firmware update that silently fixes the problem for the future.

In the mean time, this shit is pretty hilarious.




[Edited on March 1, 2010 at 2:53 PM. Reason : :]

3/1/2010 2:47:39 PM

i didn't know that...

3/1/2010 2:51:06 PM

as Dammit100 stated


RIP PS3

2010-1999

3/1/2010 2:58:11 PM

Quote :

"Most likely the problem will go away when internal clock moves to valid date"

If what is being said is accurate - that the problem causes the internal clock to move back to 1/1/2000, then how is it going to move to a valid date on its own? If an NTP update will override the internal clock, then it should have fixed itself fast enough that there would have been nothing more than a blip.

3/1/2010 2:59:29 PM

Today we are all PS3s

3/1/2010 3:00:05 PM

On the Operations Sports blogs there was like a 30 page thread about people shitting their pants because they couldn't play the Show today

One guy even called this the "9/11 of the gaming word" and he was dead serious

3/1/2010 3:02:38 PM

Our massage therapist told me, she said 'You know, what happened in Haiti is a catastrophe. What you're having is a disappointment.' And I told her that depends on which chair she was sitting in, because it does feel like a catastrophe to me, and that's because it is my life."

3/1/2010 3:04:38 PM

i've always wanted this kind of thing to happen to facebook so all the 16 year old hs girls would freak out

unemployed gamers are not bad people

3/1/2010 3:10:37 PM

motherfucker, I wanna play MW2

3/1/2010 3:13:48 PM

Quote :

"If what is being said is accurate - that the problem causes the internal clock to move back to 1/1/2000, then how is it going to move to a valid date on its own? If an NTP update will override the internal clock, then it should have fixed itself fast enough that there would have been nothing more than a blip."

The internal clock didn't move to 1/1/2000, it moved to 02/29/2010. Since that's not a valid date as far as the PS3 is concerned, it caused some error which reset every PS3's calendar to 12/31/1999. The thinking is that once the internal clock moves on to 03/01/2010 , everything should go back to normal.

As a side note, some people have already fixed their PS3s by opening them up and unplugging it's equivalent of a CMOS battery, essentially resetting it to a valid date. There is no reason to think it won't be the same with everyone else once either a fix comes through, or this simply resolves itself.

[Edited on March 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM. Reason : :]

3/1/2010 3:13:56 PM

Happy new year!

3/1/2010 3:16:04 PM

so if I left my ps3 off for the last few days will I avoid this problem altogether?

3/1/2010 3:19:03 PM

Depends if you were plugged into the internet

Its like Skynet that it will infect you if there's any connection

3/1/2010 3:21:16 PM

you should if you dont cut it on until sony gives the green light
mines been off for a week and was planning on playing yesterday but ... i'll wait

3/1/2010 3:21:29 PM

Shrike this isn't a piss on Sony thread....that is so 2006. I'm just saying they fucked up pretty badly.

Can't vouch for when it's happen before but if it has and reduced the system to a cinder block for up to potentially days....I'd say it was a massive fuck up too.

3/1/2010 3:22:08 PM

no, it's an internal issue, not an internet one.

and i'll be damned if people think i'm about to pop the CMOS batterty

3/1/2010 3:22:27 PM

dammit people - turn it on and play games that dont have to be connected to teh internet!

3/1/2010 3:36:01 PM

does anyone really enjoy trophies

i personally do not care

3/1/2010 3:38:19 PM

^^No, do not do that. This is has nothing to do with being able to connect to the internet or not. It's possible some of your games will work just fine, but you could potentially corrupt the save files of certain games. Not being able to connect to the PSN is a symptom, not the cause.

[Edited on March 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM. Reason : :]

3/1/2010 3:39:26 PM

so if the slim ps3s arent affected, they must have known about some issue, and fixed it for those.

3/1/2010 3:43:43 PM

They probably just switched to a different vendor for the chips that are causing the problem, or the vendor themselves realized the problem and corrected it themselves(possibly without telling Sony that the problem ever existed). Either way, they should have known this was coming and been pro-active in resolving it.

3/1/2010 3:47:59 PM

Hmmm mine was working fine last night, turned it on this morning just long enough to pop out a bluray to send back to netflix, wonder if that was a bad move haha

3/1/2010 4:03:37 PM

Quote :

"does anyone really enjoy trophies i personally do not care"

I don't either. The trophies are cumbersome to understand and not really worth the effort. I don't care much about my gamerscore either, but it's easier to say "My score is 5000" than it is to say "I have 8 platinum trophies and 20 gold ones".

3/1/2010 4:21:02 PM

Trophies are cool whenever you get them naturally thru normal gameplay, but some people kill themselves to get everyone even if they hate the game by the time they're done with them

3/1/2010 4:33:58 PM

Yeah it's the equivalent of spending 8 hours grinding to beat the Ruby/Emerald/Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy whatever. A lot of work for not much of a payoff.

3/1/2010 4:37:37 PM

is it 6 central time yet?

3/1/2010 4:52:17 PM

^^ What was wrong with that?

3/1/2010 4:54:25 PM

My Ps3 is working great...

3/1/2010 5:20:45 PM

^^

Quote :

"not much of a payoff"

3/1/2010 5:46:48 PM

Mine's working now.

3/1/2010 6:57:13 PM

same here...online again.

3/1/2010 7:00:34 PM

mine too.

3/1/2010 7:00:54 PM

woohooo!! time to rape some fools in mw2!!

3/1/2010 7:06:09 PM

Yep, 7:00 PM.

3/1/2010 7:19:57 PM

Shrike: Is that shirt actually available? Or is it just someone's mock-up.

If it isn't available, then Sony needs to jump on it. Solid way for them to rebuild good faith would be helping make fun of the problem.

Also, what are the odds that Sony didn't see this coming at all?

3/2/2010 12:32:39 PM

3/2/2010 12:37:27 PM

is it safe to touch my ps3 now?

3/2/2010 12:43:03 PM

yes. PS3 has returned to normal.


There is no "fix", it fixed itself. Look for a firmware update soon to correct that error so this doesn't happen next year.


2/29/2010 WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE DISC STOPPED TURNING!?

PS3 NEVER FORGET

3/2/2010 1:18:48 PM

does anybody know of any stores currently selling them? i'm trying to get a new one and everyone is sold out.

3/2/2010 1:33:00 PM

I've been looking myself and I have struck out everywhere.

Even Amazon has a wait.

3/2/2010 2:16:17 PM

Quote :

"Early yesterday afternoon, PS3 users on the #Efnet IRC network claimed to have pinpointed the problem. A small ARM Syscon CPU dedicated to menial tasks within the PlayStation 3 was known to have an issue dealing with leap years. The same piece of silicon had a history of causing similar aggravation for mobile devices with the likes of Zune and some Blackberry devices afflicted. In those cases, MSFT and RIMM were on top of the issue. Sony, unfortunately, was not."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digital-foundry-vs-apocalyps3

3/2/2010 2:19:37 PM

^^,^^^

There's a few sites selling them for 350 or so

3/2/2010 2:24:40 PM

^^ See, after the other problems I have a hard time believing Sony wouldn't have been on top of the issue.

It just kinda feels like feigned ignorance to keep them from having to actually react long enough for it to blow over.

Like none of them knew quite how to handle the situation, so they just played dumb.

3/2/2010 2:33:14 PM

That article is wrong though, Microsoft was not "on top of the issue". All the Zunes were locked up for a day and everyone laughed at them.

3/2/2010 2:36:01 PM

Its a classic example of the problem solving flowchart

3/2/2010 2:36:04 PM

Playstation Move - The Playstation's motion controller was announced.



Consumerist says it looks like a sex toy.

It'll be interesting to see how the tech compares to the Wii and whether it can do 1:1 motions.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/11/playstation-move-and-game-previews-roundup/

[Edited on March 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM. Reason : moar details]

3/11/2010 10:37:35 AM

Yeah,there will definitely be some funny proctologist's stories with this

3/11/2010 10:42:13 AM