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Netyaroze on 01 March 2010
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Hyruken said:
joeorc said:
Hyruken said:
Mine is still not working either, and i just got Heavy Rain :(

They better hurry the fook up and sort this out as Bad Company 2 comes out on thurs and if i can't play that i will layeth the smackdown on my PS3 by swapping it for the 360 version!

How the hell can you fook up a system over a clock....haven't like consoles from nearly 20 years ago had clocks and not had the problem?

it's not as simple as your looking at as.

for instance :

these system's are geared toward by design as system like you have as a PC these system's are entertainment computer's. these are not like a Game console in the sense as the PS2 or the Game Cube even to some extent as the first xbox.

with the function's they have added also come's with more complex system design. the Bio's of these system's are like the PC bio's not like the Bio's you had in much older Game system's.

you did not have firmware update's to your PS2 like you would have that is on the PS3. more complexity come's greator chance of a fault, but since these thing's that happen are few and far between , and that some can be more critical than other's quite a number of people are not used to this, which is quite understandable if your mainly a console gamer and not say a gamer on the PC.

many PC gamer's have experienced problem's like this many time's it's just the first time game console's have hd this extent of problem's. they will get ironed out, and I know it is very frustrating but they are working to fix it. I say hang in there.

But how does that explain all the consoles that have never been connected to the internet to receive updates having the same problem?

It has to be something that was inside the machines when they were made for all of them to go the same way.

Which again makes you ask the question how could they get that wrong as it seems so basic? Like Mobile Phones for example, we have had them for decades now, they have updates etc. Have never heard of this happening to a phone. Could you imagine how pissed people would be if say their Iphone would not work due to a date memory problem?

This problem has already started to hit national media now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/mar/01/games-sony

 

As far as I understood it this is what happened:

Its the system clock it has NOTHING to do with the PSN. The Anti piracy measures start to work because the system Clock is messed up ( You cant influence the system clock its useless to change the date or time. 

if you download stuff (full games,Dlc) or have certain games installed the system noticed the time when you did this but if the system clock shows a date prior the install the system thinks that you changed the clock somehow to hack the system and nothing will work. Also it messes up your trophies because the time you won them and the time the system says it is dont adds up so they just vanish but they are saved anyway on sonys server so they arent away.

This problem has  nothing to do with beeing Online in fact it is even helpful if you were connected during the incident. Because your system was synced with the PSN Clock so nothing happened. If you switch off your system after midnight everything should work fine. Also I think that the PS3s system clock works internaly with GMT time so all systems work with the same time and the system cant be messed up. The problem actually occurs to a total random time depending on the time zone you live in.