PS3s Struck Down in Worldwide Outage - PS3's Day of Doom

SPH73 · Mar 2, 2010

SPH73 said:
Despite all the drama I bet this problem is resolved in less than a day.

It will either be fixed by the change of the date or a fix created by sony.

Hey I was right!

+1 Internets for me.

And who knew the fix would be so easy. All this drama for nothing.

DeltaBurnt · Mar 2, 2010

SPH73 said:
SPH73 said:

Despite all the drama I bet this problem is resolved in less than a day.

It will either be fixed by the change of the date or a fix created by sony.

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Hey I was right!

+1 Internets for me.

And who knew the fix would be so easy. All this drama for nothing.

I think this confirms my theory of this should have been on April 1st. I mean really? Messing with people exactly 1 month from April 1st, and it automatically fixes itself at the end of the day?

Coincidence? I think so! Er...I mean not...dammit...

lolsjoel · Mar 2, 2010

Waninkoko said:
Enjoying the PS3 bug... Thanks Sony.

Via http://www.twitter.com/hackinblack

Well that's good news for PS3 pirates-to-be.

stinkoman · Mar 2, 2010

Law said:
Jasper07 said:

Mine too, now I can't play MW2

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That's probably for the best.

Speaking the truth.

Also, if your model ends with L, you're good.

SPH73 · Mar 2, 2010

DeltaBurnt said:
SPH73 said:

SPH73 said:

Despite all the drama I bet this problem is resolved in less than a day.

It will either be fixed by the change of the date or a fix created by sony.

Click to expand...

Hey I was right!

+1 Internets for me.

And who knew the fix would be so easy. All this drama for nothing.

Click to expand...

I think this confirms my theory of this should have been on April 1st. I mean really? Messing with people exactly 1 month from April 1st, and it automatically fixes itself at the end of the day?

Coincidence? I think so! Er...I mean not...dammit...

Yeah it all seems like a joke now.

Still I was scared shitless for about 15 minutes. I bet a lot of other people felt the same way.

WiiThoko · Mar 2, 2010

Psyfira said:
WiiThoko said:

Ha, this proves the Wii is better than the PS3 and XBOX360!

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Translation: mountain bikes are rubbish because the chain occasionally falls off, this proves my tricycle rocks (despite the fact there's fewer moving parts, the wheels are smaller so it doesn't go as far and by the time I get to school everyone else is leaving). Okay bad analogy I know (2am brain apologises), but the PS3 and 360 were built to do far more than the Wii so to compare the two when one uses simpler technology really isn't fair. I agree that consoles definitely shouldn't have the problems that the 360 and the PS3 have, and it's really bad that both have shipped with such serious issues. But playing the console war card every time a system has a fault is getting old. Don't tempt fate; the Wii may yet develop a fault we haven't heard of.

You know I wasn't serious, right?

tobi9859 · Mar 2, 2010

BWAHAHAAHA

Athlon-pv · Mar 2, 2010

WiiThoko said:
Psyfira said:

WiiThoko said:

Ha, this proves the Wii is better than the PS3 and XBOX360!

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Translation: mountain bikes are rubbish because the chain occasionally falls off, this proves my tricycle rocks (despite the fact there's fewer moving parts, the wheels are smaller so it doesn't go as far and by the time I get to school everyone else is leaving).

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You know I wasn't serious, right?

hehehe

Well the thing is that everything that can be updated can introduce problems. The one thing that I find weird is that not every PS3 is somehow put through the same procedure. The last thing you want as a developer is have firmware react different on certain models.

prowler · Mar 2, 2010

http://www.pcworld.com/article/190454/play...sly_fixed.html/

Athlon-pv · Mar 2, 2010

QUOTE said:
Sony has yet to update its international blogs or Twitter feeds, possibly because the company's collectively collapsed from stress-exhaustion, but more likely because they want to be sure things really are back, not just bits and pieces. I can vouch for my own recovery--two units, one retail, one debug, but that's it.

What Sony is to lazy to brag on how they already fixed the problem , not likely ......

Joe88 · Mar 2, 2010

Prowler485 said:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/190454/play...sly_fixed.html/

basically they just let the problem fix its self just like MS did with the zune

air2004 · Mar 2, 2010

I bet it has to do with the phat one being hacked ....the slim hasn't been yet

ZeWarrior · Mar 2, 2010

Some of you people here are clueless.. it has nothing to do with the hack.... it has nothing to do with an 'early April fools joke'.
It was just a battery issue, people were able to open up their PS3s and remove the clock battery for a few minutes and putting it back and having their systems working again in maybe 30 minutes at most.

ProtoKun7 · Mar 2, 2010

DeltaBurnt said:
Also I don't know if anyone noticed, but destructoid changed their logo at the top left to have a blue screen and say

"A error occured at the thingy
Error: 80010JKLOL"

QUOTE(tobi9859 @ Mar 2 2010, 05:16 AM)

BWAHAHAAHA

That's nice

it almost fits too well...

Just change the date and it'd be fine

Madridi · Mar 2, 2010

i didnt really bother reading the latest news and i dont really want to
Can somebody just tell me whether its fine to run the ps3 now or not?

thegame07 · Mar 2, 2010

madridi4ever said:
i didnt really bother reading the latest news and i dont really want to
Can somebody just tell me whether its fine to run the ps3 now or not?

It's fine , everything is fixed.

Madridi · Mar 2, 2010

That's all i needed to know. Thanks

Magoo222 · Mar 2, 2010

A couple of things I don't really understand about this. A leap year happens when the year is exactly divisible by 4 but not by 100 (in most cases). Surely it's a pretty easy calculation to do 2010/4 and find it has a remainder? How does a bug like this even exist in the first place? Secondly, if the PS3 thought that yesterday was February 29th, why doesn't it think today is March 1st, and therefore continue to throw a hissy fit?

CasperH · Mar 2, 2010

Magoo222 said:
A couple of things I don't really understand about this. A leap year happens when the year is exactly divisible by 4 but not by 100 (in most cases). Surely it's a pretty easy calculation to do 2010/4 and find it has a remainder? How does a bug like this even exist in the first place? Secondly, if the PS3 thought that yesterday was February 29th, why doesn't it think today is March 1st, and therefore continue to throw a hissy fit?

It was the first even leap year (or something like that, I'm not so good with these things)

Thoob · Mar 3, 2010

CasperH said:
Magoo222 said:

A couple of things I don't really understand about this. A leap year happens when the year is exactly divisible by 4 but not by 100 (in most cases). Surely it's a pretty easy calculation to do 2010/4 and find it has a remainder? How does a bug like this even exist in the first place? Secondly, if the PS3 thought that yesterday was February 29th, why doesn't it think today is March 1st, and therefore continue to throw a hissy fit?

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It was the first even leap year (or something like that, I'm not so good wiith these things)

Umm... 2008?

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