No problems here.

No Problem 60GB

No problem, Australian 60GB.

The whole thing stinks of muckraking to me. Sony has put up with a lot of this sort of thing this gen. A year ago, when I was going to get my PS3, more than one serious gamer told me to steer clear because of all the negative online reporting, basically claiming that the PS3 was a half-finished, serial-freezing lemon riddled with all kinds of problems. If they hadn't actually seen and used mine, they'd probably still believe it. I think some of it comes from rabid 360 fanboys, and some from people who were just bored with Sony's 10-year market dominance and looking for unkind things to say. Anyway, since we can't seem to find one person whose machine was genuinely bricked by 2.40, it's obviously not a major issue, if it's an issue at all.

Can't wait to hunt my first platinum trophy :D

It bricked my 80 and 40 Gb PS3's the day it was put up...

2.5 total hours on the phone with Sony and I am shipping my PS3's back for repair after formatting the drive and trying many things...

I know that this could happen with any update on any console.... But, it happened to me and is ticking me off. Both of my PS3's have been warranty repaired once before and now they both have to get a second repair.

Now my count is:
My 1 Wii died once...
My 2 PS3's have died twice...
Out of my 6 360's 2 have had RRoD...

What a crappy generation of hardware. Anyone asks me and I'll say they all blow if you use them a lot.

NONE, its just bs stirred up by the xbot crowd. But my friends 80 gig died out before the patch

Mine works smoothly as ever