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Tens of millions of PlayStation 3s disabled by bug (latimes.com)
19 points by jac_no_k on March 2, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


February 28th, eh? A leap year bug, perhaps?


Yes. The problem went away a few hours ago when March 1st/2nd arrived.


Yep.

> [the] internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year.

From here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/playstation-network-s...


"Wonder if they picked up a book instead. ... No word if gamers have decided that as they can't play they might as well party like it's 1999."

My sentiments precisely.


I couldn't use my PS3's NetFlix integration last night.

Not everyone uses it for games. :)




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