Sony PS3 GLITCH thousands affected - Dont turn on your machine yet

inspace

My playstation 3 just died and lost all my saves - silly me read this article and tried to see if mine was ok and oops all gone

Dont turn on your unit yet if you want to keep your saves wait for a fix

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/7344758/Sony-PS3-network-glitch-affects-thousands.html

Darksun

This only applies to the older 'phat' consoles - the slim models are OK

Yours is the first case I've heard of where the save games have actually been lost, I've just heard games can't be played (including offline for some games). Are you sure they're all gone? They might reappear when the glitch is sorted

Silly Sony, this is not a leap year :rotfl:

inspace

Mine said your game save data is corrupt press cancel to start a new game your game saves will be lost - this happened on two games so I just turned it off for now. My family members will not be impressed.

Little big planet and Paradise city so far on mine if it helps anyone

inspace

My older phat console is only 5 months old I bought it for the design rather than the new !!!!!! one.

Both the above games are online capable games I think.

Darksun

inspace wrote: »

Mine said your game save data is corrupt press cancel to start a new game your game saves will be lost - this happened on two games so I just turned it off for now. My family members will not be impressed.

Little big planet and Paradise city so far on mine if it helps anyone

Well, from what I've read about this bug, it's caused clocks to reset back to 1999/2000. So it could be seeing the saved game, thinking "hold on, this save file is from the future, it must be dodgy" and giving you the error, so once the clock is fixed you should be able to get them back as normal. Unless it automatically deletes the saved games once it thinks they're corrupt, which is a possibility :eek:

inspace

Ive just rung my older son at college when he gets home he says he will look at his but he lives his life playing online games with probably hundreds of hours of saves - ive told him to wait

inspace

His console is older than mine

gaming_guy

i turned mine on this morning just to see if mine was affected. It was (and the date reset to 31/12/99) but i still have all my saves & data.

PS3 slims are not affected (and apparently, the 160gb phat isn't affected according to some reports)

inspace

My first thought was a leap year glitch and slashdot seems to think the same reading peoples comments below the the article - various problems sound worrying even if we get a fix will we save our saves

http://slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/0536236/Calendar-Bug-Disables-Older-PlayStation-3-Models

aliEnRIK

Much as I hate the site, might be an idea to follow it on twitter ~
http://twitter.com/SonyPlaystation

inspace

Is it me or was the last post from sony 12 hours ago - maybe I need to sign in but I too never got twitting