PlayStation 3 Error 8001050F Fixed: All Is Well Again

February 28th, 2010 is a day that may very well go down in infamy as the biggest system blackout in video game history. Such is the way of Error 8001050F. This error is more specifically an error in the internal settings of the PlayStation 3 which severely crippled certain consoles. The extent of the error denied PS3 users to play any games and also reset the system internal clocks to 12-31-99. But the worse part is that all Trophies players earned before syncing were lost and even corrupted in other cases.

The systems that were affected were only the older PS3 "Fats" and even not all of them were affected, but a majority were. The new PS3 Slims all seemed to be running properly. When asked what happened, Sony stated that there was a bug in the "clock functionality incorporated in the system." This just meant that all the internal clocks reset themselves to 12-31-99 which caused a ton of nasty problems which included the inability to log into the PlayStation Network.

All that was happening last Sunday night. As of yesterday, it seems that the problem has been entirely fixed. What happened you may ask? Did you have to download a patch or send your console into Sony to get repaired? No. It seems that everything just miraculously went back to normal all on its own. It seems that Trophies are no longer corrupt however, any Trophies that had been corrupted are now blanked out. Specifically, if you didn't sync your Trophies before Error 8001050F struck then you are out of luck.

This isn't the first sighting of a PS3 problem. Back in January, PS3 users experienced multiple PS3 update problems with the 3.10 and 3.15 firmware updates for the console. These problems caused consoles to freeze while booting a game and then when restarted, the consoles Blu-ray drive would not read any discs at all. But it seems that, unlike Microsoft, Sony has worked hard and fast on getting their problems fixed and almost all PS3 owners are gaming as usual.

Source: G4TV

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New PS3 Updates Prompt More Console Failures

When many people think of system failures the PS3 doesn't typically come to mind. Most of us think system or hardware failures and we immediately think of the Xbox 360 and its dreaded red ring of death that plagued thousands of gamers (including myself...... twice) for quite some time. Well now it seems that the PlayStation 3 is experiencing "technical difficulties" with some of the firmware updates being pushed onto consoles.

The most common problem people are experiencing involves the machine's Blu-ray drive. Ever since Sony let loose the 3.0 and 3.1 firmware updates for the PS3, many people's Blu-ray drives have been failing completely. However, the problems don't stop there, Sony has just rolled out the 3.10 and 3.15 firmware updates and it seems even more people are experiencing problems with these new updates.

Whether or not the problem is widespread or not is still unclear but, like everything these days, the problem is blowing up on forums all across the internet with a lot of people having problems mainly with the 3.15 firmware update, which came out last month, but still quite a few people having issues after the 3.10 update. Between the two versions out now for the PS3, the 40GB and the 60GB, it seems that the 60GB is the most affected.

A post off of the Eurogamer.net forums reports that the user's game froze and that after rebooting, the Blu-ray drive would not read any discs at all. This failure came after the poster updated his console with Sony's 3.15 firmware update on his original 40GB console. A poll by one user on the official PlayStation forums found that 35 users either had some bad issues or a complete system failure while 27 users experienced no problems whatsoever. It is unclear how reliable this poll is because, let's face it, how many of us that are not experiencing system failures or firmware update problems are actually going to search the internet for news on them? I rest my case.

I'm sure if the problem gets worse, we will definitely hear about, just remember how fast news of the red ring of death circulated. And you can bet that if the problem gets that bad for Sony that the Microsoft boys will be blasting it all over the internet to make sure you PS3 owners and potential buyers know about it. But we will have to wait until more reports surface before an "official" word can be sent out.

Source: G4TV

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