As we had reported last night, the Sony PlayStation Network was (and still is) down because of an unexplained technical issue. The issue causes an error code of 8001050F to appear upon launching any PS3 Blu-Ray Game, setting the clock back to 12/31/1999 (sounds a lot like a Y2K bug), trophy sync problems and downloaded content (DLC) to show that there are invalid copyright permissions. This has caused a lot of headache among hundreds of thousands of gamers globally and still no update from Sony on their blog or their Twitter feed.
So, what is this? A PS3 Y2K bug? Possibly. The error code “8001050F” is referenced to mean “Hardware failure. Cannot update firmware or connect to internet.” However, upon launching most games, players are getting a message stating “Registration of the trophy information could not be completed. The game will quit. (8001050F)”. Why would this be? Shouldn’t the PS3 work offline too? That’s what we thought. All of our offline DLC, such as Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII (PS1/PSP Playable) does not work at all. We can’t play single player games that shouldn’t rely on the Internet or not such as Heavy Rain. All we have to say is we hope that this is fixed today, and for sure before the 9th of this month, when Final Fantasy XIII releases.
Usually by this point, Sony would/should have replied…but what’s to be expected from a free network? Our advice: If you haven’t turned on your PS3 yet, don’t. It’s tragic enough to read about and even worse to see for yourself. Last night, the topic of “playstation network crash” hit the #5 hottest trend on Google and now currently sits at #40. Wait until Sony updates their Blog or Twitter with “we’ve fixed the error”. We will keep you posted as well, so stay tuned.
can you guys fix my ps3 network
thats crap! we shouldnt have to do anything! they should orginally provide decent softwear for as long as the playstation lasts! just because they cant provide a decent softwear in the first place. if i have to buy a ps3 slim as ps3 didnt make this softwear originally i will personally go to the creator of this problem and bang him out lol
I just want my ps3 to work again. I hope I didn’t lose any of my data on Dragon Age, Heavy Rain and Mag. )o=
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At this point, only Sony can fix this. We’ve already called our local GameStop and our 80GB model is worth $150.00 on trade-in. Hopefully we won’t have to go get a PS3 slim.
From our best guess, it would seem that Sony *may* have programmed the firmware to think that this year was a leap year – which makes sense. I would assume that at this point the only way to fix the problem is for Sony to provide a downloadable firmware to a USB or External Media to fix the issue.
We feel the same way. If this isn’t fixed before FFXIII comes out, we’re planning to go to San Diego and throw rocks at their building and join in on any class-action suit that’s available.
We’ve had unconfirmed reports that creating a new user on the PS3 may allow you to play games offline. However, we do not suggest it.