PS3 firmware update bricking firsthand

[WrinklyNinja]

Right I work in a gamestation store for those who dont know. Anyway, as you may or may not have heard, the latest PS3 firmware has apparently been bricking PS3s. Disc read errors and them not working at all.

Anyway, today, I saw about 3 PS3s be returned and in the back we have about 6 or 7 all fresh in. I overheard one customer saying that it just stopped reading discs.

This seems to be affecting alot, because its rare that we have any PS3s in that are broken as oppose to the rougly 5 a day "old" 360s (bigger cpu, no hdmi) we get in. Customers look at us funny when we tell each other what to put when writing a returns form "red ring o' death". "Does this happen often?" "ha, yes"

Neway, yeah, there is some credibility to this latest firmware bricking. Higher than normal amount coming back, and I cant confirm this except for the 1 I saw for definate, but it seems to be affecting the 60 gigs.

Moral of the story? DONT UPDATE YOUR PS3 UNTIL YOU SEE NEWS ABOUT A PATCH AFTER THE DATE OF THIS POST!

[Sabretooth]

This the 2.0 firmware?

[draganess]

Thanks for that info, Im sure lots of ps3 users will find it useful. I on the other hand havent got a clue what your talking about lol!!

[Harv]

Do you happen to know if the problems were caused by users filling the drive or memory card before performing the upgrade?

It takes 120Mb of disk space to do the 2.0 upgrade and I was wodering if they had implemented proper safety measures to ensure this, premature disconnects or line drops could cause the units to fail.

2.01 is immenent to "solve issues" with 2.0 and plenty of people have upgraded without apparent unit failure so it may only effect those that experianced a failure when updating?