Sony Releases PS3 3.61 Update Ahead of PSN's Imminent Return

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 14, 2011 @02:45PM from the but-methadone's-pretty-good-too dept.

Sonny Yatsen writes "Sony has released the PS3 3.61 firmware update as a part of the phased return of the Playstation Network and Qriocity. The new update now requires all PSN users to change their passwords in order to sign back into the PSN service." And several readers are pointing to reports that the network is slowly being spun up. Snips one anonymous submitter: "Sony Japan told customers today that it would begin phased restoration of its services of its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month. The company would start bringing back its gaming network this Sunday, on a country-by-country basis, and expects it to be completed by May 31."

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Re:The problems go much deeper by Moryath · 2011-05-14 15:08 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The upside for everyone else - Wii, Xbox, PC - is that they've been playing their games this entire time.
Oh, and they don't have to update to an untested version of the "new system software" that still has a pretty good (as in, "non-negligible") chance of bricking your console with the update-from-HDD method they were using.