Update: SCEA’s posted an update on the PlayStation.Blog. Apparently those with 120gb/250gb PlayStation 3 slims shouldn’t be affected anymore. Hopefully it’ll be fixed for everyone by morning.
Original: Hold your horses before starting up that PlayStation 3 tonight. According to reports from multiple PlayStation 3 owners, an 8001050F error code is appearing upon sign in of the PlayStation Network. This is leading to very unfortunate side-effects like corrupt trophy data and the inability to acess PlayStation Network. These issues are preventing players from playing certain games like Heavy Rain, considering it needs the sync trophy data when starting up.
Sony have already said they’re “looking into” the issue. Many users with old PlayStation 3′s (the phatties) are reporting their date was set back to December 31, 1999 — likely due some sort of February 29 confusion.
Until Sony addresses the issue, play it safe and keep your console off. Good thing I read about this before I started up my PS3 tonight.
PSN is down, some titles experiencing game-crashing errors [update] [JoyStiq]
WOW hell yea…all of this is Tru…I was like WTF is going on…I instantly came on here to see whats up…and saw this message
I can’t even use media share if thats even possible too…
I did have a number of freezing problems with Heavy Rain actually, for example staying on the loading screen forever or losing the sound altogether. Maybe it had something to do with this?
@TezChi: I had no problems with heavy rain.
I hope that this fixes itself when the PS3 clock comes back into the second melaninum.
That being said,hopefully we don’t end up losing our trophies as a result of this mess. I feel bad for people all over the world who don’t have internet and might never not
I played Bioshock 2 today. And now i can’t get any trophies. :( When i check my trophy collection Bioshock 2 is gone….
If you check the newly designed Playstation.com site you should still see your trophies… hopefully.
I didn’t fire up my PS3 for anything other than the God of War III demo so I didn’t notice anything missing. Then again I didn’t fire up any games then noticed that my trophies were missing.
As for the site redesign, it’s okay. I like that they’re using more white space than the ominous, dense black and red but it does appear to at least be more user friendly.
News about this is all over the British tabloid press and radio right now. I hope Sony fix it soon, the papers are becoming very sensational (as always) and almost saying it is a consipacy!
As for me, I havent [dared] switch on my launch 60GB today just in case this happens. Thankfully I beat Heavy Rain last night!
I haven’t either.
I guess it really doesn’t matter. I mean they ALL have the defect.
I’m guessing Sony’s going to issue a firmware update to fix all this. I wanted to get in more Star Ocean today, so I hope they do it soon.
It’s just amazing how much press this has received. It’s like everyone just forgot about the 360′s (previous) 33% failure rate.
At least no one had to box up their PS3 and wait a week or more to get it back.