24 Hours Later, The PlayStation 3 Fixes Itself
24 Hours Later, The PlayStation 3 Fixes Itself
Posted 03/01/2010 at 8:35pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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And they say PC gaming is user-unfriendly. Earlier today, we brought you word of a global PlayStation 3 outage that sent PS3 owners flocking to their exploded chess pieces and Rubik’s Cubes in a sad attempt at entertainment. Fortunately, just as Sony prophesied, after only 24 hours, the problem’s nothing but an unpleasant memory.
“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,” said Sony Sr. Director Patrick Seybold in a blog post.
Sounds like all systems are go, then. “Corrupted” data’s also syncing properly again, in case you were worried about that.
And so ends the darkest moment in Sony’s history since, well, the PS3’s hilariously over-priced launch. Here’s hoping this is finally the last of the PS3’s many troubles.
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Keith E. Whisman
March 02, 2010 at 9:17am
Now watch in 9months there are going to be millions of babies born. Wonder what people did to occupy themselves during the great PS3 black out of 2010.
windbane
March 02, 2010 at 5:04am
My sister was using my PS3 all day yesterday and I was using it sunday and I never got any error messages and neither did she, and I have a PS3 "fat" system. I got mine 6 months before the slim model came out. Although I mostly use mine for media streaming duties more than gaming.
M-ManLA
March 02, 2010 at 12:22am
All my data is still there. No problems. Seems like we was sooo scared about the year 2000 we forgot the year 2010.
Electronically charged
murixbob
March 01, 2010 at 9:25pm
Because of their stupidity it will happen again in 2014 if people still have the release ps3s then.
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