Recently, the much-hyped PlayStation 3 firmware 2.40 update — with in-game XMB and Trophies - was made available online. But this came with a bag of surprises. Owners of every model of PS3 are reporting problems ranging from the minor microphone problems, to the gigantic ones, like consoles not booting at the initial wave screen. In response to this, Sony has taken down the update for the time being and updated their knowledge-center post for the 2.40 boss with the following text:
“UPDATE: 7/2/2008, the PlayStation 3 system software version 2.40 has been temporarily taken offline and will not be available for download as our engineers examine any possible issues with this update. The Knowledge Center will be updated with information as it becomes available; please check back here for further details.”
Sony PR director Patrick Seybold believes this problem might be an individual one, will are “looking into it right now and will work with those customers [to] directly address any issues they may be experiencing.” Unfortunately, the only currently known fix for those with a non-operational system is to reformat the hard-drive, erasing all the savegame files. The repair cost are estimated to be 150$. Given Seybold’s comments, presumably Sony will be working out other fixes for systems that were broken with the update soon.
The massive update includes an in-game Cross-Media Bar, the much talked about Trophy system, and many more features
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