There are a myriad of reports and Sony has confirmed that there is a bug in the PS3 that could not cope with the date role over from the 28th of Feb to the 1st of March. Thousands (probably millions) of PS3 users are reporting that they cannot play online Sony states that off line play should be unaffected, however there are also reports that off line play is also affected. Sony is working on an update to fix it but this could take days.
Errors include:
* The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000.
* When the user tries to sign in to the PlayStation Network, the following
message appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have been
signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”.
* When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appears
on the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to install
trophies. Please exit your game.”
* When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via the
Internet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current date
and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)”
* Users are not able to play back certain rental video downloaded from the
PlayStation Store before the expiration date.
The only good news is that Blu-ray playback and the PS3 slim are unaffected.
I’m actually seeing this on my son’s PS3. At the moment I’m keeping mine off until there’s a fix
