PS3 firmware bricks systems

Peter G. 2 Jul, 2008 at 8:15pm ET Article published in Tech

In an odd bit of news, Sony posted an updated firmware for the PS3 last night that offered a ton of sweet features to the PS3’s frothing masses.

Shortly after that, the masses were frothing mad, coming to find out that the updated firmware had killed their consoles. Sony pulled the update this afternoon and is apparently working on a fix, giving an official statement a short time later.

[blockquote=Sony]In order to further assess the issue, we have temporarily taken the firmware offline for further testing. We are working diligently to isolate the problem for those few consumers and to identify a solution before we put the firmware back up.[/blockquote]

If you’ve had problems with the update, we want to hear about it on the forums.

Comments

3 Jul 2008 ~ 1:50am Gate28 Worked like a charm for me, but im still frothing mad about the lack of suppory on both the dev's end and sonys end on impleting trophies in game, the current list of games supporting trophies is skimpy, and 2/3rds of it isnt even released it...
3 Jul 2008 ~ 6:20am rolleggroll PS3 firmware upgrade worked fine for me. I think it is a very poor update though, the XMB in-game menu looks crappy and it runs poorly. The menu itself just feels so choppy when you bring it up ingame when compared to the regular XMB.
3 Jul 2008 ~ 10:14am Linc Filed under "oops"
3 Jul 2008 ~ 10:17am Snarkasm The update itself just wasn't very appealing to me, so I'm somewhat glad I avoided it since this came up. So we get in-game XMB - playlist support is still up to the devs, trophy support is still up to the devs, there's no voice chat, and there's no game invites. I guess I was expecting a little bit more.
3 Jul 2008 ~ 6:56pm airbornflght Yeh, all the things I wanted were cut out. I could care less about achievements and playing my own music.