PlayStation 3 Hit By Errors Making PSN Inaccessible, Crashing Certain Games
Many PlayStation 3 owners across the world have found themselves unable to connect to the PlayStation Network online service since Sunday, while their consoles' internal dates have been reset and several games have started outright crashing.
Attempting to connect to the PSN results in failure with an "8001050F" error message, according to Joystiq, meaning all forms of online functionality are wholly unavailable.
The new PlayStation Slim is unaffected, according to Sony social media manager Jeff Rubenstein on the PlayStation.Blog, but it seems all other models are vulnerable--including the debug consoles used by developers, which Develop reports "have been thrown into a rebooting cycle, due to an endlessly-looping error message."
Furthermore, Kotaku sends word that certain offline games including Heavy Rain will simply reboot the console when loaded, nor could they play the PSN release Flower.
Rubenstein writes, "know that we have narrowed down the issue and have engineers working to restore service even as you read this," without giving any insight into what is responsible. Eurogamer speculates that a calendar bug is to blame as affected consoles have their date reset to January 1, 2000, even if they haven't been online.
"We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and genuinely appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this" says Rubenstein. There's no word yet on when normal service will be resumed but Sony says to keep your eyes glued to its Twitter.
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Rauol Duke
replySony needs a Major Nelson to get out and be yelled at by customers and keep updates going out.
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Consoles have never been reliable, but really this current generation has gotten out of hand.
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Yeah, I had my launch 360 red ring and then the drive died and I switched to an arcade about a year and a half ago but nothing else, and this is the first issue my PS3 has had. My launch 360 lasted longer than my ps2 did.
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Silent Wolf is the Forrest Gump of consoles shitting the bed though. He's gone through like 9 360's.
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There's been quite a few documented problems with various sku's of the ps3 (all 100 of them lol) but nothing on the level of the RROD. This current problem catapults them into that area however.
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RROD gets a 3 year warranty, and the replacement console has a RROD warranty, My buddy bought a 360 4 years ago, he's on his third, but has only ever paid for ONE. 4 years from ONE purchase, and each time they sent a prepaid shipping box, so he hasn't even paid shipping.
I wish ALL problems were on that level, we'd never have to care about consoles dying if they were that easily replaced for any problem.
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Nothing has ever been; I doubt there's been a system to date where nothing has gone wrong.
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