If your a lucky individual who successfully installed firmware 2.40 with no problems you won’t have any problems to come. There are a number of reports saying that they’ve had problems with firmware 2.4, saying that this firmware upgrade has ‘bricked’ their Playstation 3’s meaning it won’t boot up.
Sony’s Patrick Seybold Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media issued this statement on the Playstation.Blog:
“As has been reported on many gaming blogs and websites, we have temporarily taken Firmware v2.40 offline. We’ve received a limited number of calls from consumers experiencing an issue with installing the system software update on their PS3. While our consumer services department has seen a low volume of calls on this topic, we are committed to providing the PS3 community with XMB access features delivered in the v2.40 update. We are working diligently to isolate the problem for those few consumers and to identify a solution before we put the firmware back up.”
The problems are not exclusive to a perticular model, consumers have reported that its been happening on all models. As you can see from this thread on the official Playstation forums, a lot of people have had problems.
I’m the lucky person who didn’t have time to download and install firmware 2.40 so i’ve not even tried it out or seen it in action apart from the recent videos.
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Zero issues on my PS3.