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July 7th, 2008 @ 10:33
According to this CVG report, a PS3 Firmware 2.41 is to be released in the middle of this week.
The site’s got this from Sony customer support. We’re waiting on comment from SCEE PR on 2.40’s status at the moment.
Firmware 2.40 was pulled last week after numerous users complained the update was locking their PS3s.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I just hope it will come out. I had no problems whatsoever when installing the firmware, but I’m not taking the risk so I haven’t played all week now. Just don’t want to lose my savedata - backing it up doesn’t help for some games, it’ll say it’s not legitimate (burnout paradise).
July 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am
You do realise that if it installed ok then you are fine don’t you? The problem was only when installing it no post install.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
DrDamn: Not entirely true. There are a number of people reporting crashes on 2.4 where they had none before. But yes, it’s not bricking.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Crashes are a whole world away from bricking - plus it would be very tricky to pin crashes down specifically to 2.4.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@ prodygee
No need to refrain for using your PS3!
If you installed the 2.4 update successfully there’s noting to worry about.
The error ONLY occurs WHILE installing!
July 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
DrDamn: Tricky… for sure, but when there’s a whole bunch of people talking about it only happening since 2.4 you have to wonder if it isn’t related.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Makes you wonder.. How, ffs, can a company like Sony screw something like this? Especially when the whole lot of us watches. Incredible.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
@ wz
This can happen to anyone. Being a big company with lots of experience does not make you imune.
And AFAIK the 2.4 update is not just a simple software-update to the OS, it’s a FIRMWARE-update.
So if you screw while updating you can’t just wipe your HDD on all’s fine again. Firmware-updates patch your hardware, and that’s a very delicate and dangerous process.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@wz
This won’t be the last we see of this sort of thing. MS have already managed it twice themselves with the 360.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
To both commenters:
Of course, it can happen to anyone. As long as anyone does not actually test their stuff under real-world circumstances. Surely, a locking-up firmware should have been detectable by testing it on some 1000 or so consoles from different product eras.
It’s feat not that hard to pull of for Sony.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:52 am
@wz
As far between as finding someone who actually have experienced this seems to be (bricking), it’s not like it’s a big thing.
Unforseeable things will always happen in programming. It could have been caused by a combination of settings that only occurs in perhaps a few in a million consoles.
Every firmware update probably bricks a couple of unlucky chaps consoles somewhere in the world.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Being a programmer myself, I do understand where the difficulty comes from. I just don’t have any feelings of empathy whatsoever for a company like Sony (or MS, on another note) messing up something the size of this.
And considering the fact they actually *pulled* the upgrade, it cannot be that few and far in between, really.