Last week, Sony released its latest Firmware update as a step towards preventing its console from being jailbroken and hacked. Unfortunately for a lot of gamers, Firmware v3.56 also brought with it the inability to upgrade the HDD of any PlayStation 3 console with 16MB of virtual memory — which just happens to be every PlayStation 3 Slim.
Despite the attempts to patch up security holes in its hardware, Sony’s latest Firmware was hacked to shreds within days of release, proving that nothing had changed and that it was time to go back to the Firmware drawing board. It’s just a shame that so many users are stuck with non-working PlayStation 3s because of this change.
According to several users on the Official European PlayStation Forums, they’re stuck with a non-working console because they chose to erase the data from their original HDD prior to trying to upgrade to the new one. Sadly, this means they have no compatible HDD that will work with the PlayStation 3.
Sony needs to implement a fix to this issue as soon as possible and when they do, we’ll be sure to keep you covered on it.
It seems hacking is not a victimless crime.
wow that sucks
That’s bullshit for the people who’s PS3’s don’t work any more.
great job sony. Not only did your firmware update not stop the hackers at all, but now you got people with ps3s that don’t work.
so instead of stopping hackerz, they stopped the non hackerz instead. Intriguing!
man, it’s a good thing I haven’t updated my firmware yet