and there you have it.

Updated my PS3 on the night the FW was released and it has worked fine ever since. Got a 60GB too, but I don't think this incident is console version specific.

Also, it's not entirely -widespread- either, but I can understand why Sony pulled it to do more testing. Imagine, if you will, that a small portion of a consumer crowd found a small problem with a product but that problem was not really crippling the consumer in question, but merely inconveniencing them and doesn't seem to be able to affect everyone else in the process. If you could issue that fix right away via some update then Sony would not have pulled it.

However, since the issue does affect people at random (regardless of the small number affected) and has the potential to REALLY wreck up the userbase considering you cant plan who it will hit next the product needed to be recalled and retooled so that the issue can be found and dealt with.

Better to have pulled it before it committed a worse case scenario and bricked half the userbase (even though there was no evidence that it would.)

It's being cautious and a rather consumer-minded approach to trying to fix the problem rather than deny it (RRoD issues) or refuse to release a better quality product (RRoD issues again).

No problems here so far (knock on wood).

2.4 worked great for me, but yesterday afternoon I booted it up and my HDMI output stopped working. Tried a different cable, my 360 works fine in the same input on the TV, so its not my TV or the cables. I tried resetting the video settings like instructed over the phone by holding the power button down when it was turning on to no avail. I got the standard a/v cables that came with the PS3 and used those and it worked fine, so I'll be sending it in to get the HDMI output fixed, bourns.

When it comes to updates be it for my PS3 or my Nvidia 8800 GTS or Vista I just sit on it for a couple of days. When I haven't things always go south.

mine works fine, but when i used the in game xmb to exit GTA4(or was it pain?) the ps3 beeped and reset instead of going to the menu, but only happened once. works fine now

mine works like a purred puppy thats warming up in carmen electra's fake boobies in a hot sauna in Mount Fuji while getting tattooed on her rear.





... what? it works...

got 2.4 no problems to report thus far.

The update went smoothly and I haven't seen so much as a hiccup since installing 2.4. I had issues with randomly logging out of PSN before the update, but I attribute that more to my connection than anything.

Why is it that when someone has some bad news that's dealing with one's electronic equipment, suddenly someone's biased? Are you people listening to yourself or is the pain distracting you from your stupidity?

Honestly, why do even care if someone is biased towards another console? Not saying that's ever the case with Destructoid, it's just fucking pathetic. You'd think they were talking about your children, you bunch of lame ass weirdos.

Go get some friends.

I havn't had any problems yet. I don't know anyone on my friends list who has had problems either. I think this may be due to everyone going for 2.40 at once causing alot of people to lose connection while downloading causing a bad form of 2.40. Maybe, but thats just a guess.

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeej for being on holiday while this was released!

I downloaded my update a day or two after release from a 3rd party site that hosted the file. My 60GB PS3 updated to 2.40 without a hitch. My only concern, however, was the final installation process that skipped from roughly 60% to 100% almost instantly.

Just back-up the console HD to an external HD and go for it...what have you got to lose? ** apparently the recovery process shown above involves hooking up your PS3 drive to a SATA equipped PC **