Can you hear that? No, I don’t mean the fireworks. Underneath the cacophony of explosive bliss and national pride, Sony is suspiciously quiet. Perhaps entirely too quiet about their failed attempt at launching their new 2.40 firmware, which was supposed to give users the ability to have access to in-game XMB and the new Trophies system. Instead of cool features, it only bricked consoles. Because of the problems, Sony pulled the update two days ago.
After a series of inquiries about the progress of 2.40 to Sony, CVG solicited a response of:
No further update.
The response is entirely too little, and way late. Brave users that experienced issues have had to manually reformat their harddrive, while everyone else is left looking at a dead console. It’s like the Xbox 360’s “red ring of death,” except less common -- and the solution isn’t wrapping towels around the poor thing.
So, we ask, how many of you have been stranded with a bricked console? If you did experience this issue, what is Sony doing to alleviate your issue? Also, how many of you are now afraid of even updating to a revision whenever the smoke clears? I know I won’t be trying anything anytime soon.
[Thanks, Joe!]
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9:16 PM on 07.04.2008
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Thankfully it's the exact same harddrive as my laptop and I have an extra caddy so I'm going to throw it in there and see if I can save my data before I wipe it. Gotta wait for my laptop to get back from repairs first though.
Sounds like just a few isolated incidents that of course get to speak for the majority.
I dread to think how many updates there will be when I do turn it back on for 'something'... maybe little big planet... or the next time there is a great Blu ray to watch... perhaps... or not.
Not really.
Honestly, there are barely any people who had problems with this compared to the people who didn't. I downloaded it before I even heard of the problems, directly from my PS3, and everything works fine for me, too. CWa137's the only one here who's had any problems, too. (For which I send my condolences, by the way.)
I'm glad i'm not home to download this update this week.
I'm frankly amazed that this is the only gadget I know of wherein early adopters did not get shafted up the ass. LOL iPhone.
Also, it really seems that only a few people out of thousands have had any issue. I have 2.40, and I love it. Can't wait for them to give more features to go along with it. But it's a step in the right direction.
I think it's about time people stop calling this anything more than what it is. A widespread panic for little reason.
RRoD is a major design flaw in the hardware of the 360.
This is a flaw in the software that is easy to overlook. I wouldn't be suprised if it's somehow similar to the issue that Ratchet and Clank had where the game wouldn't install if the user had a specific amount of hard drive space free.
Not saying this is a good thing by any means, but don't go blowing it out of proportion. Seriously.
"It’s like the Xbox 360’s 'red ring of death,' except less common and the solution isn’t wrapping towels around the poor thing."
There may be some problems, but nothing that would warrant a 30% failure rate as a conservative estimate.
Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that Sony hasn't said anything about the 2.4 removal. Hopefully we'll get an update in the next few days.
This is the reason why im thinking of getting a 360.(but it doesnt have any games i want say for fable 2 and gears 2 but those are going to be released for the PC anyways.)
Good thing i have this nasty habit of waiting a couple of days before i buy or download anything. Didn't they learn in the whole GTA 4 incident
Note: I'm not a PS3 fanboy, I just know how to do simple math.
When the RROD started hitting people were loseing consoles right and left.
I've yet to see a comment with a dead PS3. everybody is reporting a working console.
I vote major security flaw here. Maybe 2.4 enabled free PSN downloads or something lol. Now theres a Rumor to start spreading!
I wouldn't know, I don't have a PS3 yet.
This shows the importance of a backup image. I had a PC with a toasted BIOS once, but was able to re-flash the firmware off a floppy disk because the motherboard had a tiny backup BIOS that tried to read a BIOS image off the floppy drive if the main checksum failed. Really cool, and not very expensive to do at the hardware level, either. With most PCs, you have to use a special chip programmer to get the system working again.
It's worth noting that some Wii systems got bricked after firmware updates, too, but you had to send the console back to Nintendo to fix it.
I got 8(12 if you split the Orange Box) games and no trophies
Definitely the best feature of 2.40 that no one is talking about.
Of course the test sample would need to be greater, that's only a 0.5% failure rate given current sample group. That's acceptable when you consider other factors like bad hardware (hard drive) or user error (or even power failure) which could contribute to that number of bricked consoles.
There are no real problems with 2.40, but it's rate of bricking consoles might be higher than past firmwares, which is why Sony pulled and is re-evaluating the code.
Actually, the real reason Sony puled 2.40 is it was found to cause cancer in lab rats.