PLAYSTATION3 ADMITS DEFEAT – INITIATES GLOBAL SELF-DESTRUCT ORDER “8001050F”
There’s some amazing PS3 news being reported out there today, with numerous owners of the older, fatter model of Sony’s malformed shit-biscuit tin reporting the error message 8001050F – which means SYSTEM SELF-DESTRUCT.
The error message also seems to mean “don’t connect to PlayStation Network and corrupt all Trophy data”, rendering the PS3 useless (more useless) both online AND offline. It is as if the LORD ALMIGHTY has waved a finger and eradicated all disease from the face of the planet.
It would appear all older 60GB fat PS3s are exploding and corrupting data when games are booting up on a network-connected system, basically. Enjoy the ultimate tech-support nightmare unfold live, by reading Sony’s PS blog and its PlayStation Twitter page. It’s OK, you don’t have to sign up to just read it.
LINKS OF MERRIMENT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD:
– Eurogamer
– MCV
– Gizmodo
– Kotaku
– Spong
– Cnet
– NeoGAF
– EU PlayStation Forum
– Joystiq
March 1st, 2010 on 10:44 am
This is some kind of calendar error, apparently? Is this the belated arrival of the Millennium Bug? :o WHERE WERE IN IN 2000 WHEN WE NEEDED YOU!!!!!
Im going to look at my Dreamcast in celebration (Its broken :( ), while feeding my VMchao
March 1st, 2010 on 10:54 am
This is bullshit (yes, I’m a PS3 owner that reads and posts on UK:R, sorry). The online network going down for maintenance etc. is normally fair enough, but a console killing bug? Go suck one, Sony.
I was going to say it makes you pine for a console that just ‘works,’ but then the 360 isn’t exactly an option there either.
We’re left with just the Wii then, hooray! This is where I start getting too old and jaded to willingly hand over piles of cash for a half-assed product, isn’t it?
I’m only 23 :(
March 1st, 2010 on 11:31 am
This is perfect wank material for a Monday morning.
March 1st, 2010 on 2:19 pm
Yes, this is bullshit.
Why have you bought a ps3 instead of a washmachine-displaying-dreamcast-logo ?
This world is going NONSENSE.
March 1st, 2010 on 6:09 pm
Oh dear. Everyone wish that the Wii ingests itself and Sega will be the only unblemished competitor when they inevitably launch the Dreamcast 2.
March 1st, 2010 on 6:16 pm
Well… Sony have made us wait for the console and any decent games through a series of pointless, drawn out delays… seems they’ve now brought in the delayed Millenium bug from 1999.
Well played Sony.
March 3rd, 2010 on 8:32 pm
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