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According to this Product Reviews piece, complaints are emerging over PS3’s Firmware 2.42, including loss of Blu-ray functionality and an inability to connect to online games after updating.
We’ve no idea how widespread this is, but we’ll ask Sony for comment tomorrow.
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Psychotext said:
Gotta love this generation of consoles.
patlike said:
I’ve had no problems with mine at all. One of the complaints there says the machine’s stopped reading discs altogether.
Bleak Harvest said:
No problems on this end. Can’t be too wide spread.
Psychotext said:
pat: That’s probably co-incidental… drive failure is by far the most common issue with the PS3 and with 10 million or so out there it wouldn’t surprise me if a drive or two died around the same time as someone updating their firmware.
patlike said:
Ja. I haven’t seen this anywhere else at all, so hopefully it’s just the odd incident.
Zarckan said:
Pat, you ever going to reply to yer Facebook messages?
S G
patlike said:
Heh. I will tomorrow.
Gekidami said:
Havnt seen anyone mention any problems on the GS PS3 forums…
CastellanSpandrell said:
Oh FFS! Not this again. The failure rate for 2.40 was f’ing miniscule yet sites (yes, this one included) blew it out of all proportion.
patlike said:
As I said at the time - as did many others - a global PS3 software update that causes some consoles to completely die and is pulled by Sony as a result is a large news story. It just is.
CastellanSpandrell said:
“As I said at the time - as did many others - a global PS3 software update that causes some consoles to completely die and is pulled by Sony as a result is a large news story. It just is.”
Before the firmware was pulled it was reported on this site about a “myriad” of problems and complaints. The links posted led to threads on the official Sony boards where one problem and thread was resolved quite quickly as having nothing to do with the firmware update problem and on the other the vast majority of people were reporting no problems.
DrDamn said:
The Sony pull was more the news story than the failures. Apparently a delay in fixing the 2.40 issue was related to Sony having trouble getting hold of a bricked console to analyse what went wrong - that’s how extensive that failure was.
patlike said:
Well, problems were reported and Sony pulled the update. It was news. Which is what we do
cadder said:
I updated to firmware 2.42 and since that my cd-/dvd-icon is missing. Cant play cd´s/dvd/bluray or games, and Im not the only one.
Check: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3updates&thread.id=6967&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Syrok said:
Happend to me, too. After 2.41 though. I blame the laser and not the firmware.
Lucas said:
I also updated to firmware 2.42 a few days ago. No problems
for 2 days, 3rd day: “suddenly” cannot play BD or DVD no more.
Blerk said:
/twilight zone music