My boy is doing his nut aswell, says he cant sign in. What's wrong with it? Sorry, cant be bothered to click the link

Well the date on mine and other owners of the ps3 has the date as 12/31/1999, which is likely the cause of the data-corrupting errors.

Now we are waiting on PS to fix it... but they are probably sat on their american asses eating krispy kreme doughnuts and drinking coffee.

Basically, it's a similar problem to what people feared would happen back in 2000 with the millennium bug. The internal clock is trying to convince itself that today is February 29th as if it was a leap year, when it isn't, and this is forcing it to reset itself and this then creates all the problems. Sony are praying like crazy to every god in existence hoping that the problem will fix itself at midnight tonight.

If it doesn't, things should get interesting...

All over the news now, I came across that disley on another forum. The slim ps3s are fine.

But the fat ones are dropping left, right and centre.

I was sent this: http://twitter.com/PlayStationEU to check for updates.

The advice is not to use the PS3 until the problem is sorted, they reckon 24 hours. I know my son cant sign in at the moment (he's had the raving hump)

Oh and for PS3 enthusiasts, there are 2 games just out on the market that my boy's screaming about, Alien V's Predator and Hard Rain (he's getting these for his birthday next week).

I just cant believe how expensive these games are?? 40 quid a throw. Luckily, he does play them to within an inch of their life and then trades them in at Gamestation for credit for more games, so IMO there's no wastage unlike other toys/gifts. It's a really good scheme that Gamestation do (you get more if you trade in for credit towards other games rather than cash)

Anyone know of any new good games out for the X box at the mo? I need present ideas! Ta much

Both my sons are rather annoyed. In fact they keep coming downstairs to tell me about it and I really aint interested

Ditto

Its Heavy Rain Karma

Oh Good job I didn't go swanning in the shop with my nose in the air demanding the wrong thing then

It's the one that's had all the weird trailers on the tele isn't it? Any x-box or other PS3 games you can recommend that are good would be muchos appreciated Meaty!

Everything should be working again now. The problem did fix itself. Now we just need Sony to do something about it to stop it happening again in 2014...

Depends what game genre they are into karma, shooting, sport games etc?

I was unaware there was a bug till today, thought it was something I had done to my console so I was very annoyed, let me on GTA IV even though my trophies had gone.

Couldnt care less about the trophies, as long as my saved data is still there then im happy.

True Meaty, I would hated to start again especially as I have my created Wrestler on S VS R 2010. Kept getting a message aobut corrupted data though.

Oh shooting, blood, gore, aliens

He loves Fallout 3, GTA and all that kinda stuff

Good taste in Computer games.

Probably call of duty: modern warfare 2

Prices are dropping on it aswell, I wouldnt bother getting Heavy Rain...  not at the moment as its around £40.I enjoyed it but its not a shooting game. Its abit too short aswell, could be completed in few days

Its difficult to say what genre Heavy Rain is though,probably a thriller/adventure game with unique gameplay that has to be experienced to truly understand. Even the experts and pros struggle to grasp what this game is, it is unique.

He's already got it (He always gets the latest 'must have' ones, which is why the exchange scheme is so good) I'll see if there are any other games he wants, but he's only mentioned those 2 so far.

Oh and did you know that (apparently) PS3 games cant get scratched? So it's just as good buying a pre-owned copy compared to a new one (the guy in Gamestation told me this)

Ohhhh I know what I'll do, take him to Loch Fyne restaurant. (He loves the lobster there) Sawted

hahahaha..CAN'T BEAT THE XBOX 360

Its no better tbh, that console has had many problems before. Graphics are far superior on the ps3 aswell... the only thing I can see better on an xbox is online. But even then you have to pay for it.

He's got an XBOX 360 aswell.

BTW the PS3 online issue is sorted

This is something I've been trying to find out Meaty. I started a thread here a couple of months back and someone said you can get some kind of membership whereby it's free or summat? I don't mind paying really as long as it's not too much, any idea what the cost is?

Im not too sure karma, theres different ways I think. You can pay 12 months, 6 months or a month I believe. I don't have one so I can't be too sure.

No worries mate The boy hasn't expressed a desire to go online with the X Box (yet) so I'm not rocking any boats (meee not silly)