Sony has announced that the issue plaguing 'fat' PlayStation 3 consoles yesterday - causing them to function incorrectly due to a leap year bug in the system's internal clock - has been resolved today.
In a post called "PlayStation Network Service Restored" (Sony, honey, it wasn't a PSN issue), the company confirmed on its US Blog that the older hardware "recognised 2010 as a leap year" and that "having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT)" seemed to have solved the problem.
Well, by "having the internal clock date change" we're sure Sony really meant "waiting for the internal clock date to change so it might fix itself". But no matter - it's all fixed now, with the exception of those who played any games during "The Lost Day" and didn't sync their trophies - those are being reported as lost by some gamers on forums.
Still, we can play Heavy Rain again, and that's what counts. What did you do during "The Lost Day"? Fire up the Xbox 360? Play Scrabble instead? Go *gasp* outside? Let us know in the comments box below.
In a post called "PlayStation Network Service Restored" (Sony, honey, it wasn't a PSN issue), the company confirmed on its US Blog that the older hardware "recognised 2010 as a leap year" and that "having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT)" seemed to have solved the problem.
Well, by "having the internal clock date change" we're sure Sony really meant "waiting for the internal clock date to change so it might fix itself". But no matter - it's all fixed now, with the exception of those who played any games during "The Lost Day" and didn't sync their trophies - those are being reported as lost by some gamers on forums.
Still, we can play Heavy Rain again, and that's what counts. What did you do during "The Lost Day"? Fire up the Xbox 360? Play Scrabble instead? Go *gasp* outside? Let us know in the comments box below.
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headcasephil 2 Mar 2010 09:55
1/4
i had a good old retro time dusted off me old zx spectrum and my god im glad that the ps3 now fix tape loading takes the biscuits so long just for a bit of jet set willy
Serpream 2 Mar 2010 11:18
2/4
I got back into good old 3D modelling and did some design work to update my portfolio. When i see things screw so badly it reminds me we are all human and i should really chase the job down.
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Daz 2 Mar 2010 14:21
3/4
I just transferred my FFX save to PS2 and carried on where I left off the night before
Shaggy Notch 4 Mar 2010 17:24
4/4
i found that i had lost trophies for heavy rain & dragon age. saved data still there but trophies gone. don't mind for heavy rain as i had only just started it but draon age however - the number of hours i had put into that game..........lots anyway. In fact I'm unsure whether I'll bring myself round to starting it again. maybe in time.