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[UristMcGunsmith]

The Play Station Network went down sometime last night. Normally I'd say "Oh well" and continue gaming offline, as I grew up in the days before online play. But no, not only was the online community affected, but through some terrible glitch in the trophy system a few OFFLINE games no longer work. Including Call of Duty MW2. This is affecting ALL the oldschool "fat" models. The Slim models seem to be unaffected.

Normally I only have nice things to say about Sony, but an offline crash is just unacceptable, something one would expect more from a 360.

http://terminalgamer.com/2010/03/01/psn-down-data-corruption-issues-being-reported/

[Shadowgandor]

I like it how everyone's bashing the X360 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TMVEOr1FY&feature=response_watch she mentioned the 360 as well) but I never had any problems with the X360, only the RLOD a few times.
Tsch

[Zangi]

The night I actually got off my ass with an uber hankering to shoot people in the face in an online game....  and I find this... 

I was quite tempted to use my 1 year xbox live card, but got lazy.  Those things don't expire right?

[Goron]

but I never had any problems with the X360, only the RLOD a few times.

Excuse my ignorance... but isn't the RLOD a 'problem'? In fact, I'd go so far as to venture it is a serious problem... But, I've never owned a 360 or had to deal with sending it away for week(s) to be repaired, so I wouldn't know from experience.

[UristMcGunsmith]

I do have a 360, PS3, and a gaming PC. I've had to send in my 360 to be repaired 3 times. I can't say that it wasn't easy, because Microsoft did a good job of handling the problem every time and was 100% free, but that doesn't excuse the breaking all the time.

I've never had a problem with my PS3 until last night 

[Cthulhu]

My 360 is at my house, and apparently it's finally bricked.  I knew it was coming, it froze in any games with a lot to render because of that video card soldering bead thing, and several games had inexplicably become unreadable, despite being relatively undamaged.

[Apple Master]

Allegedly, It's a problem with the internal clock of "fat" ps3's. I've heard many things, but the consensus seems to be that "fat" ps3s have all reset their clock to 1999, thus rendering new services/everything broken. 80GB fats work, and all slims work.
If this just a shit ploy to get moar ps3s bought then Sony are fucked.
Hopefully they'll release a patch though, even if it just resets the date to now.
Meanwhile I'll be playing MAG on my lovely slim :3

[Tilla]

Allegedly, It's a problem with the internal clock of "fat" ps3's. I've heard many things, but the consensus seems to be that "fat" ps3s have all reset their clock to 1999, thus rendering new services/everything broken. 80GB fats work, and all slims work.
If this just a shit ploy to get moar ps3s bought then Sony are fucked.
Hopefully they'll release a patch though, even if it just resets the date to now.
Meanwhile I'll be playing MAG on my lovely slim :3

I find the idea that this would be a ploy hilarious, even Microsoft wouldn't put an intentional crippling glitch in on purpose like this.

Hopefully the patch (coming as soon as Sony figures SOMETHING out) will allow an option to disable Trophies finally? I'd love that

[Zangi]

Hmm if its an internal clock problem....   I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

Also, I don't see how anyone is going to get a patch if they can't connect to the PSN servers...

[Sowelu]

Sony has made a HUGE deal about how the internal clock is absolutely, completely 100% read-only and unhackable.  Combined with "We can't get online to get any patches", this is going to be HILARIOUS.

But yeah.  It's not just online games at all.  It's tons of offline games, and even the ability to play blu-ray discs for at least some people...They're as good as bricked.

[Zangi]

Sony has made a HUGE deal about how the internal clock is absolutely, completely 100% read-only and unhackable.  Combined with "We can't get online to get any patches", this is going to be HILARIOUS.

But yeah.  It's not just online games at all.  It's tons of offline games, and even the ability to play blu-ray discs for at least some people...They're as good as bricked.

QQ  and this is my launch ps3...  I don't want to lose it.

[Apple Master]

You can't set the time yourself.
Just gonna have to be patient.

[dogstile]

but I never had any problems with the X360, only the RLOD a few times.

Excuse my ignorance... but isn't the RLOD a 'problem'? In fact, I'd go so far as to venture it is a serious problem... But, I've never owned a 360 or had to deal with sending it away for week(s) to be repaired, so I wouldn't know from experience.

I've had mine RROD (Red Ring Of Death" twice, and both times I got it back in 3 days, with a free month membership card. With all the problems I see people have with the PS3, I really think its just a case of sony's fanboys being louder than the xbox's

[Goron]

but I never had any problems with the X360, only the RLOD a few times.

Excuse my ignorance... but isn't the RLOD a 'problem'? In fact, I'd go so far as to venture it is a serious problem... But, I've never owned a 360 or had to deal with sending it away for week(s) to be repaired, so I wouldn't know from experience.

I've had mine RROD (Red Ring Of Death" twice, and both times I got it back in 3 days, with a free month membership card. With all the problems I see people have with the PS3, I really think its just a case of sony's fanboys being louder than the xbox's

In college my roommate's xbox went red three different times in two years. The first time it took weeks (yes, there is an 's' on the end making it plural) to get back. The second time took around a week, and the third time I don't know the exact length because he was at home when it happened.
Call me a fanboi, but in my mind those problems are pretty freaking horrendous and have nothing to do with the console wars or fanboy propaganda.
And, again, call me a fanboi, but (aside from this network/clock incident) I have never heard of a ps3 problem before.
I admit I do own a ps3 but I am far from a die hard fanboy. I got it because it comes with a free bluray player (I got it back when a stand-alone blueray box cost more than a ps3) but to this date I have never experienced a technical problem ever with my ps3. I know the ps3 is a stronger, better machine when it comes to the hardware. Others can waste their breath arguing about which is a better gaming console all other things considered, but I think it is pretty fair to say the 'xbox hardware problems' are not simply a result of sony fanboys being louder than microsoft's.

Again, I don't give a crap about which is the better console all other things considered. I'll actually add that if I gamed primarily on console, I'd have gotten an xbox (its of my opinion it is a better multiplayer gaming system for a number of reasons). All I am referring to are the hardware problems; this incident is the first time I have ever heard of a widespread hardware problem with the ps3.

[dogstile]

I just get bothered with the RROD getting so much attention. Its not /that/ bad and the customer service is rather good.