This year is turning out to be the one Sony will be eager to see it end, and a year to quickly forget. Actually, it just kept getting worse for the console giant amidst report of the latest firmware update crashing their consoles,causing overheating, and red light flashing.
Rockstar pointed accusing finger at the latest PS3 firmware update, version 3.61,blame it for causing older ‘fat’ models of Playstation 3 systems to overheat or involuntarily shut down.
Rockstar in response to complaints said ”We have received some reports of PS3s overheating while playing L.A. Noire or beeping three times before shutting down/turning themselves off, mostly on older 60GB and 80GB fat models,”
Rockstar adds that “Primary reports seem to be that updating to firmware 3.61 will cause PlayStations to overheat. There have been various reports of this on a few different games now, all reporting their PS3s turning off or ‘Red Lighting’ after having installed 3.61,”
“This can range from games randomly freezing to PS3s turning off anywhere between 30 mins use to 2 hours. We have confirmed locally that multiple games (Rockstar and non-Rockstar) overheat or freeze only when 3.61 is installed.”
“We are continuing to test L.A. Noire on all firmware versions and hardware models to isolate the issues and see what can be done. As always, we will update this article as soon as we have updates,”
they concluded, but offered advise to gamers to contact Sony with the issues, giving assurance that they too will look into the issue.
