miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2011

PS3 Firmware 3.61 is overheating old units - Rockstar

Rockstar has blamed latest PS3 firmware update, version 3.61, for causing older 'fat' models of PS3 to overheat or involuntarily shut down.

"We have received some reports of PS3s overheating while playing L.A. Noire or beeping three times before shutting down/turning themselves off, mostly on older 60GB and 80GB fat models," said Rockstar in response to complaints (via MCV).

"Primary reports seem to be that updating to firmware 3.61 will cause PlayStations to overheat. There have been various reports of this on a few different games now, all reporting their PS3s turning off or 'Red Lighting' after having installed 3.61," it adds.

"This can range from games randomly freezing to PS3s turning off anywhere between 30 mins use to 2 hours. We have confirmed locally that multiple games (Rockstar and non-Rockstar) overheat or freeze only when 3.61 is installed."

Oh dear. It just doesn't get any better for poor old Sony, does it?

Rockstar recommends users contact Sony with issues, while it offers assurance that it too will look into the issue. "We are continuing to test L.A. Noire on all firmware versions and hardware models to isolate the issues and see what can be done. As always, we will update this article as soon as we have updates," is said.

Have you had any issues since the firmware update?

24 comentarios:

  1. interesting blog, very good reviews

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  2. This is the reason I sold mine. Nice to know why it kept acting up.

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  3. don't have a ps3, but i find it funny that nothing seem to be going in sony's favor recently :P

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  4. sony's day just keeps getting worse

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  5. lol ps3 blows get an xbox, Live stays up 24/7 and they don't even lose your credit card numbers

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  6. I have never seen a Sony playstation explode or anything like that, but I heard their PSN was down for quite some time. Throwing the information you posted, combined with their awful sales and PSN being down, can we really expect a PS4 ... ever...?

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  7. It's just not a good month for Sony is it!

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  8. Sony just isn't on their game nowadays.

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  9. At least it isn't permanently broken when it overheats like the xbox360

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  10. PS3 just keeps getting bad rep :P

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  11. And yet another bout of bad news for Sony

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  12. I love sony but with the past few weeks a guy can only wonder what is happening there.

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  13. I bet it is sony fault they always screw up.

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  14. Lol, here comes another Sony's embarrassment

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  15. Surprise surprise, Sony messes more stuff up.

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  16. I'm surprised Sony is even semi-acknowledging that the patch -might- be to blame!

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  17. I updated to this patch but I haven't even played my PS3 since.

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  18. What's next? 'PS3s Cause TVs to Malfunction' or something like that?

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