PlayStation Network down, so are lots of PS3s (update)
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 28th 2010 8:25PM
posted February 28th 2010 8:25PM
Update: Sony's tweeted that it's "looking into it," and our boys at Joy say that owners of original PS3s are seeing their clocks reset and even data loss in some cases. We'll keep you updated.
Update 2: Given that issues started to appear as February 28th became March 1st, it's being speculated that the PSN woes are related to an improper handling of leap years. Similar to the issue that bricked those Zunes back in 2008. Sorry, manually setting your date doesn't help, we tried.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Feel kinda sorry for sony and all these problems...
@KirbyKoot401
But I feel perfect on my 360.
@Jacinth
perfection is never free
@Jacinth as perfect as you can paying 35 quid a year on a service that continues to rip you off. Yet I regret nothing...
@KirbyKoot401
i believe its a forum update and the ps3 is also getting an update
when i went to access the forums they were all changed in color and no posts after 4:00pm and i couldnt post a new thread without getting error
Best case scenario: Hackers are blackmailing them into bringing back Backward Compatibility.
@KirbyKoot401
Sorry!? Ha! your funny!
@Funke Tobias Dr i hope so. i'd rather not buy the next-gen playstation and know i have to keep my ps3 to play classics and soon-to-be-classics on the ps3. i specifically bought a back-comp ps3 just to keep everything on 1 console.
@Caprice Dates "you're"
@KirbyKoot401 I figure I prbly shouldnt turn my PS3 on, but I have a feeling human curiosity will get the best of me by the end of the day
@wsh03370 ^ damn my humanity
@wsh03370 I know. I turned mine on out of curiosity and think "There's only a few % that are affected"... and now apparantley its' 12/31/1999 and none of my games are playing. Love ya sony!
@KirbyKoot401
1) The outage was announced yesterday
2) Disable your net connection for now, the PS3 will work just fine
@KirbyKoot401 sony should just nix the psp and psp go or whatever it is. noone eve like knew about it as much as playstation 3 when they came out. they shoudl stick to the main games that more ppl like and no about other than these wicked small things. i mean like vaios are cool too though
@Extinction Yesterday? Really? Thats why sony has just now acknowledged it? It was like an hour and a half ago. And no, turning off or completley disconnecting your ps3 from the internet doesn't fix the problem.
@Funke Tobias Dr
Go to ps3.com man. Looks like those hackers want flash and/or JavaScript
@commenter7
You're write. Perfection also isn't $50 a year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/xbox-live-up-and-running-but-still-having-difficulties/
@KirbyKoot401
You get what you pay for. Anyone up for some MW2, on the 360 of course.
@KirbyKoot401
I would laugh at their misfortune, but it seems my xbox red ringed last night...I think God got me back, but before I did something wrong.
@KirbyKoot401
My PS3 is fine and even got to cod for a bit, but im north of the border eh?
@Caprice Dates
I don't see his funny.
@KirbyKoot401
HAH! This was inevitable!!! Sony is trying to shut the entire world down, one division of electronic goods after another!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
(Take this with a grain of salt, I'm only joking... or am I???)
@shadowj0
On a more serious note, I'll be playing on my X360 now. Toodleloo, PS3 owners!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!
@aaquib
2008. Fail.
@aaquib
"You're write. Perfection also isn't $50 a year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/xbox-live-up-and-running-but-still-having-difficulties/ "
write != right
XBL is $50 a year only if you are an idiot. I regularly see it for around $30 for 13 months.
Is something from almost two years ago the best you can do? ZOMG, XBL WENT DOWN ONCE TWO YEARS AGO, IT SUXXORZ!!!1!!1!
@KirbyKoot401
I shouldve learned by now. Always check engadget before turning on a gadget.
@Sony
I WANT TO PLAY HEAVY RAIN, DMAN YOU SONY!
@KirbyKoot401
luckily i don't play online games. Still gaming as we speak. ;)
@YuriTenshi his point was that somebody said it was perfection. clearly its not perfect. nor is PSN. But we don't pay for PSN... a day of being down out of 365 total days is perfectly acceptable to me.
its probably better for everyone that its down anyways. it was beautiful in southern california today!
@KirbyKoot401
Are you sure? It's looking like it's Y2K10 for the PS3 then...?
@wsh03370 Haha, human curiosity got the best of me too :( Damn you 1999!
@KirbyKoot401 it's only one day. Oh and I get to keep my $50.
@aaquib
dude, that xbox down link is from 2008.....that's 2 years ago.....
at least try to find something recent next time
@High What a cheaper console with a 40% failure rate?
@Tiptup300 Just unplug it from network access?
@bradleigh How are you going to do that? Do you have some sort of Mental RSS feed?
Not sure about my ps3 80gb it's been on solid for a few days now since 26th so I hope it works dine
@Extinction I just tried to continue Darksiders and I get the error and I'm not connected.
@KirbyKoot401 Well it appears the problem isn't over now. Btw, the error/glitch is related to the PlayStation Fat having a problem on calculating the date of the leap year which isn't the case for this year (Feb 28) so expect the error to prolong for 1 day. Anyway, on the contrary.. PS Slim is unaffected with this glitch. Why? Slim details: http://bit.ly/sony-ps3-slim-advantages
Piss, I should be getting a game from Gamefly today. This blows.
@maythetechbewithyou
You do know that they dont deliver mail on Sundays right?
@Jaylittles531
They may stop delivering on Saturday too (if you're referring to the USPS).
Just tried to play mine before I read this. Bioshock 2, Nope. Battlefield 1943.... CRASH! Dont even think about Modern Warfare 2. So I'm sitting here playing Spyro Ripto's Rage for PlayStation
@Jaylittles531
i was just playing through GOW II and it froze so i shut it off! dont know if it is related to this, but honestly my PS3 has never frozen on me before.
@uck i have not yet turned mine on just to be save
NOOOOOO!!! I dont know how to live without MW2!!!
@wsh03370 You can't even play the single player!!!!! :(
my ps3 is down and i know why but what i dont understand is why i need the internet to play a game ie mw2, icant play my game online or offline, its pissing me off a stupid clock (callender) causes a game not to play. ano am banging on about this but how stupid is this i cant play a game i bought for £50 on a console i bought and internet i pay for because of a clock its f***ing stupid. oh and all those ps3 slimmers out there still gaming if yous were real ps3 veterans you wouldn't have waited 2-3 years to buy a console you would have got the first one when it came out . and for all the real veterans their console is cheap looking and F***king UGLY LOL.
Get out the Popcorn and romantic comedy's, PSN is doooooowwwn
You guys should ask for a refund on services