Those of you recreational gamers out there that have the older style Play Station 3 Models are most likely experiencing a problem with your system as of Yesterday afternoon. Even if you don’t use the PS3 online, you are now getting a message that says Your trophy registration is incomplete or in error. The game will now quit. It happens on most any game and whether you are trying to play locally or online via the Play Station Network. Other errors that are appearing include a 8001050F error code prompt with little or no supporting text accompanying the code.

At 8 pm EST, yesterday, Sony confirmed the problem and said the are working to resolve the issue. Resolution should come some time this evening, if Sony can keep their promise.

Another PS3 Trophy error appearing is “Registration of the trophy information could not be completed. The game will now quit.”

Some independent blog sites are recommending you dismantle your PS3 and disconnect the battery momentarily to clear the issue. Unless you are extremely technical and have a couple hours to spare (at least) I strongly encourage you not to do this as you could completely break the system. My recommendation is to wait out the problem while Sony’s engineers resolve it.

Exactly what the resolution will be, it’s hard to say. Since the PS3 can’t connect to the Play Station Network at all, it might be necessary for Sony to either send out media that the PS3 can use to read a patch from, or to even recall the units. It’s not clear at this time what the corrective action will be to get these PS3 systems working again.

Users of the new PS3 (Slim model) are not experiencing this problem as it seems to be glitch in the system clock firmware that only occurs in the older (Thick model) systems.

For the latest updates of this issue, follow my blog here, or visit the playstation blog by clicking here.

-Paul
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Paul LaFlamme
President & CEO
Centrend, Inc.
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