Playstation 3 Bug Fixed

For anyone owning the old style “fat” Playstation 3 there was a worrying time of late as Sony advised not to play these Playstations online because of a bug in the system. The bug was that the old style Playstation 3 thought there was a leap year in 2010 so had February 29th in its calendar causing many problems.

This simple yet debilitating problem meant that all old style Playstation 3 owners were unable to log onto the online network to play their favourite games against fellow Playstation owners.

Sony are happy to announce the bug has now been fixed and owners of the older “fat” Playstation 3 can now join in the fun of playing online games against fellow Playstation owners.

On the Sony Playstation blog a staff member said "We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PlayStation (PS3) units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year," and went on further to advise "Having the internal clock date change from 29 February to 1 March (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally."

If anyone does experience any more issues with playing online Sony suggests manually changing the date and time on the console before trying to log on again.