Yesterday we began coverage of a widespread error, PSN Error Code: 8001050F, that is affecting fat PlayStation 3s and their ability to play single player games, or connect to PSN in any way. First off, no, the problems have not been fixed. Secondly, unless you have a PlayStation Slim, Sony is now recommending that you do not turn on your PlayStation 3 at all until everything has been fixed.
While Sony has been slowly updating us from their Twitter account, they’ve only just released a detailed summary of the errors. Here’s the whole blog:
- The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000. When the user tries to sign in to the PlayStation Network, the followingmessage appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have beensigned out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”. When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appearson the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to installtrophies. Please exit your game.” When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via theInternet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current dateand time could not be obtained. (8001050F)” Users are not able to play back certain rental video downloaded from thePlayStation Store before the expiration date.
