Playstation Network and consoles inoperable, rich people cry [Update]

**Update: According to Sony’s blog DON’T use your PS3 until Sony says otherwise. Quite a bug we have here, isn’t it?

**Update #2: It seems Sony has fixed the bug, it seems that users might have lost their trophies, but our friends over at Joystick have a Q&A on what to do.

Anyone here happen to be playing some marginally popular PS3 game yesterday just to have the Playstation Network up and die on you? After the rage subsided, did you happen to notice even offline play not working? If so, buy an xBox360 and mod your PS3 into a really nifty grill, so we can post about it

Anyways, it seems a crazy little error popped up for some that were trying to connect to the Playstation Network. Once disconnected, some tried playing offline and still had an error, the console was left not functioning. Playstation has released a statement on their twitter, stating…”We’re aware that many of you are having problems connecting to PSN, and yes, we’re looking into it. Stay tuned for updates,” which followed a couple hours later by…”PSN status update: We’re narrowing down the issue and continue to work to restore service to all. Updates as soon as we have them.”

From what I’ve been reading, it looks as if only the older models are experiencing this. I haven’t seen any of the ‘slim’ models showing up experiencing these problems. Sony tweetted the same thing, “PSN status update (part 2): Readers/followers are confirming that “slim” units (120/250 GB models) are connecting normally.”

So for those of you with the older models, hopefully Sony gets this problem rectified and you can get back on and do whatever it is you do on the Sony Network.

ars technica

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