Rockstar Backtrack On Firmware Comment, Sony Weigh In

Yesterday a post appeared on the Rockstar site advising gamers that, in their opinion, the PS3’s latest firmware version (3.61) was responsible, at least in part, to the overheating issues consoles were experiencing when playing L.A. Noire.  We wrote about it here, look.

After that, a few things happened.  The original post was taken down from the Rockstar site, and another FAQ was added in its place without further explanation.  However, community support posts in the comments still alluded to the firmware being the main issue.

Today though, the story has developed further.  Sony have said that it’s not the firmware at fault – 3.61 is widely assumed to simply be a placeholder firmware to enable users back onto the PS3.

“As with the release of any System Update,” said a spokesperson for the manufacturer, “we will invariably see a very small number of users whose console has failed following updating their console, which is an unfortunate coincidence.”

“Rockstar have now updated their FAQ on the matter,” Sony continue, “have admitted that it is a fault with their latest title L.A. Noire and have offered a work around.  It should also be noted that the issue with this title is not PS3 specific and is also affecting other consoles.

We reckon it’s probably down to HD consoles having to render in black and white.  Tricky, that.

36 Comments

  1. Wow. Rockstar really messed that one up didn’t they. I hope Sony manage to squeeze some LA Noire DLC or something outa them to make up for the bad press, just what Sony didn’t need right now.

    On another note, it’s pretty sad to see this happen. I hope Team Bondi haven’t blown their chances at any future collaborations with Rockstar.

  2. I’ve been playing LA Noire for a few hours now and it constantly has the HDD working like no other game I’ve played. Turned it off now as this story has me paranoid!

  3. Coincidence.

  4. *crosses LA Noire off the list of games to get* I don’t need to be any more paranoid then i am.They have effed up with the coding. If it is very power and resource hungry,then i am not surpised that it kills consoles.It has nothing to do with firmware this time.I think my 80GB phat would spit the disc out and protest against running it.

  5. Tut tut.

  6. So will R* pay for the repairs to the consoles they’ve fu*ked with their game? No, they won’t.
    Do developers ever test their games out before selling them? With this generation of consoles its all patches and ballache. This never happened with the last generation, what has changed?

  7. Rockstar should be ashamed of themselves…….feckwits :\
    Exactly the kind of press Sony don’t need atm.
    I’ll say it again…….feckwits.

  8. Just “heard” about this on BBC Radio 1 news – or rather the ‘YLOD’ caused by the firmware update. I wonder if they’ll do a new report with the updated facts…

    • Of course they wont do an updated report with “facts”. that would be too easy and they wont want to admit they got their facts wrong and hadnt checked with Sony before running the report.

  9. I played LA Noire today, the heat given off from the PS3 is the same as all the other games so clearly GPU/CPu aren’t getting hotter.

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