As has been reported on many gaming blogs and websites, we have temporarily taken Firmware v2.40 offline. We’ve received a limited number of calls from consumers experiencing an issue with installing the system software update on their PS3. While our consumer services department has seen a low volume of calls on this topic, we are committed to providing the PS3 community with XMB access features delivered in the v2.40 update. We are working diligently to isolate the problem for those few consumers and to identify a solution before we put the firmware back up.
We’ll provide further information as necessary here on the Blog.
could be changing out the servers for new ones….*i hope*
Sony If 2.41 is to come out this week aside from bugs there are 2other things that must be done, 1 is move that clock, 2 is profile card should be viewable offline and trophies and profile building should be available to everyone & not everyone is online!
@2308
first thing is to get it stable for everyone…then worry about tweaking it
I don’t want to be one sided (old women/ old men).
Burgerking….I’m having a hard time just getting to the Sony site….it’s all of us hitting Sony every couple of seconds.
yeah…this site is going fast for me now, but i cant even get to sony.
as soon as i hit the link it says server has lost connection
well, i have to go mow about 3 acres. MAYBE we will know something by the time i am done.
Just sayin if they dont make this feature accessible to everyone then they are alienating every person who paid for a ps3 but doesnt have internet, xbox allows this, and i didnt figure Sony for leaving anyone without the net to miss out on trophy hunting,
@2313 XBOX had a year advancement over PS3…let’s give PS3 that year and see how far we get and what XBOX looks like at that time.
I’m just glad I didn’t buy the XBOX as I’ve seen too many people with the red light problem.
Bring back good ole Ken Kutaragi, i bet he’d give that Eric Lempel a swift shot to the groin followed by a harsh slap around the face.
hmm, my bluetooth headset works fine. the sony site is indeed offline. this site works fine. 2.40 works great. all the lag in the ingame xmb i was experiencing seems to have either worked itself out, or was a delusion of my unsober state. i did esperience a crash today while playing fatal inertia. but that was easily fixed. i do hope for all the offline ps3 users you can trophy hunt as well. i also hope for all the non 2.40 users out there to get the update soon. wonder if sony will give a gift to ps3 owners after this mess is fixed?
hmm…
Last I recall, you have to be signed into XBox Live in order to get acheivements.
Might be able to view them while offline, but not sure…
Haven’t turned on my 360 for a while and my memory is lacking on what it really does.
But I am 70% sure Achievements is considered an “XBox Live” service.
“Don’t make me turn on my 360!”
=D
I got into the Sony Forum, but it took a very long time….
Also i had a 360 for a year heavy usage and it never rrod more because it sounded like a jet warplane when it was on, which at night isnt too much fun for others in the house
@GGCAN
you aren’t kidding about that 360 debacle. i once owned a 360 for about 3 weeks, had it in my home for 4 days total before my elite went rrod. coupled with the whole chrismas live outage. needless to say once MS returned my 360 it was swiftly sold off to help with the purchase of my ps3. aside from some minor issues in the second week of owning, i’ve been very happy with my choice. if you’ve read around the other gaming sites, you may have seen MS is setting aside about $1 billion for UK elite system replacements. problem solved ehh.
@non 2.40 users
don’t be mad at sony, be glad they took 2.40 offline after reports of problems occured. could have been one of the “bricked” ps3’s. where would you then stand in light of losing your system. give them the time they need to get things running again. hopefully it won’t be to many more days/hours before new news arrives with an update on the status of the current situation.
I really like profile 2.4. It has worked great on my ps3! thanks sony! if anyone wants to compare trophies my psn: beaudreaux
And no not true i had earned loads of achievements offline on the 360 and when i finally got it online they followed over as long as attached to ur user profile, This is what Sony need to do, i dont wanna have to crawl back to Bill Gates
x-box suxs—-RROD
Soultaker….I understand what you’re saying….give Sony time and we’ll probably see it.
By the way…didn’t Bill just retire ?
Maybe he knew something we don’t.
NEW AVATARS we have a 100 friends seeing 20 ppl with the same avatar is crazy. thats easy and effortless. thanks sony ur the best #1 numero uno,
Bare knuckle boxing match between Ken Kutaragi and Bill Gates!
GO KEN
hehe would pay for that fight on pay per view :).
He ggcan i added u as a friend, guess u cant see until u get home.
And yeh im sure sony have been reading the comments and looking for all the bugs been posted and hopefully should see 2.41 this week :)
@2323 if u crawl back to bill its at ur own risk,kinda like downloading 2.40 off an untrusted site lol
wake up in the middle of the night like aghhhhhhhhhhh eye had visions of a bright red light sucking me and my money in,it was shaped like a circle,,ufo?? oh no just my xbox oh well
lol, ive had 3 xbox’s the first rrod’d when i got it out the box and turned it on, had a premium after that, sold that, still got my elite tho, and as i hate to say it here, its been good. altho as stated before, i only use it to play deadrising, love that game. lol
ah my bad, so yes XB Achievements can be obtained while offline…
shows you how much I use my 360
=D
@2329…thks for adding me as a friend…I’ll accept soon.
Actually, I work from home but I’m dedicated enough to not turn the PS3 on…(more like I need the job for purchasing new games, so I’d
better do the job !)
Anyone else want to add me…my id is GGCAN.
GGCAN do you own Super Star dust HD?
@2335 I do own it yes, since Jan 08….got all the updates too.
Just glad right after getting 2.40 patch that’s the first game I played as the 4.00 patch loaded at that time too..(trophy patch).
When it’s back up, get the Team pack add on too.
It makes the game have Split screen play and you can modify your ship plus a few other things.
Great game !
i dont have any trophies yet tho, havent bought the game yet, altho if compare trophies with mine it will say i have sshd, but i havent its the demo with 4.0 update, was gonna buy it, but they took the update down, and wasnt sure if i bought it would it still have the update as my demo did… hmm
eye was prompt to download the patch when eye had the demo then eye bought the game and they must have taken it off right when eye got the game
@ 2336 cool… will do. I heard that the team pack was something to get. Yeah, I have unlocked alot of the trophies for the game as well. fun game!
wonder if u will have to reearn the trophies when 2.41 comes out
You know…I played so much my hand is sore and my thumb is swollen.
I had to take a break, but it’s addicting.
I think it’s PSXExtreme (can ‘t remember which blog) but one of them has a cheat sheet out actually.
I looked at it, but stopped reading it…I want to get these things fairly and not cheat..
As well…I was playing Normal mode…read someplace the only way they got trophies was in the Easy mode…so that’s how I got a few trophies.
Normal mode is really difficult.
@2340…sure hope not…but who knows….and if it happens, it happens…
Lots of these people were up so high on scores from all over the world and had to start over.
Oh well..such is life.
That way we prove it’s not just a fluke.
eye have a pretty high score on normal but eye just need to boost more
is this the thread with the most comments or what.2343
ART….yes…..and the game actually had the score ratings before the trophy patch came out where you could see what people were getting and most of them had the countries flag posted as their icon.
Impressive game.
Still, I think some of these guys know a secret, or don’t do much else but play the game.
I just can’t believe some of those high scores !
@ 2344
It will be by the time we get some news of something.
Bunch of us have heard around Wednesday this week for 2.41.
@2347 where did you hear that info?
@2348….shogun34 you there ? Where did you see the post ?
I saw it earlier today, but have been to so many blogs and websites…I can’t remember exactly now.
Shogun34 has something on this blog a bit back.
seriously, where
Think it’s on page 47 of this blog….he mentioned PS3 fanboy.
Here it is:
shogun34 | July 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
just read on PS3 fanboy site that 2.41 is coming “midweek”. Guess we’ll see.
Page 46 not 47.
@ 2350 ok–I will try and find it. I have profile 2.4 but a lot of my friends don’t and are waiting anxiously for it.
@2344
Yes, it’s a new record low for Sony customer support :-)
2349 unanswered blog posts and counting is simply not acceptable. It would take less than 5 minutes for Sony to post a brief status update to the (literally) thousands of customers who are legitimately asking for it.
No one’s expecting exact day/date/time for 2.4x, just a simple acknowledgement that it’s being worked on and a general sense of the scope of the problem and maybe even an eta on a fix. It’s customer relations 101, but I guess Sony skipped that class.