A wide rash of game-crashing errors is spreading among the PS3-owning community at the moment, most of which can be chalked up to a 8001050F error code. This has led to a variety of unfortunate side-effects for those affected, including corrupted trophy information and an inability to access the PSN. When combined, those two issues prevent players from launching certain games, such as Heavy Rain, without being kicked back to the XMB.
We've contacted Sony to find out what's causing the issue, and when we can expect to get back to chasing down the Origami Killer. He might just be able to make a clean getaway while we suffer through this downtime.
Update: Sony has acknowledged the issue, and is "looking into it." We've yet to hear an official word on what the problem is, though it seems to be a bit larger than just the PSN. Owners of PS3 Phats are reporting that the date on their console has reverted to 12/31/1999, which is likely the cause of the data-corrupting errors. Some Phat-owners have reported receiving the errors while their console was offline, which is upsetting, to say the least. We'll let you know when we hear official word from Sony.
Taken from Joystiq
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Well basically phat PS3 internal clock is failing. It cant consider leap year and year 2010. The symptoms are lost trophies (oh noes), failure to launch games etc. Lucky for me, my ps3 is still on the operating bed. But since this is a hardware issue, I wonder how Sony is going to pull its head out of its ass this time. Major console recall? With 24 millions of phat sold world wide? I dont think so. The next few days will be ..EXCITING.
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actually there's a myth that all sony products have a 'kill switch' timer. that timer will be activated when the waranty period ends. most japanese people will try to avoid sony computer stuff, you can google about it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7054587/The-myth-of-the-Sony-kill-switch.html
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