Thursday, May 19, 2011

Updating the PS3 turns on old consoles toasters


Aside from bringing support for the new PSN with version 3.61 firmware for the PS3, Sony also increased the security of the island to prevent him from being hacked just as easily as the other dozens of times before. But one of the new features that the Japanese giant forgot to tell, is that by updating the console, it also turns into a toaster, overheating and in some cases, being unable to play for 2 hours.


At least that's what many console users are reporting since the update. Some of them came to complain in the forum of Rockstar because gamers suspected the game LA Noire, authored by the company, it is so graphically intensive that was causing overheating.


Later a representative of the customer's Rockstar said in a post that overheating was the fault of the update 3.61, and it happened more PS3s fat old model of 60 GB and 80 GB. The post also said that it happens "as far as Rockstar's games on non-Rockstar Games, but the company removed this reply shortly after and said" this is not the official position of Rockstar.

As Sony has not officially responded to the case, the question is whether the company accidentally caused an overheating problem or if she accidentally did it on purpose, to mimic Microsoft and its 3RL, affecting thousands of Xbox consoles worldwide. Or maybe this is a virus and has migrated to the platform, who knows?