Sony Confirms Taking Down PS3 Firmware 2.4 Update

Shortly after Sony announced the firnware update v2.4 for PS3, Sony on Wednesday confirmed that it has pulled the latest firmware update for PlayStation 3, because of reports from customers that it has caused their systems to stop working.

Sony released firmware 2.40 Tuesday, and reports of problems started flowing in soon after on the official PS3 message board.

A Sony spokesman confirmed that the company pulled the firmware off its servers while it investigates the problem, which he said was experienced by a “limited number of consumers.”

“In order to further assess the issue, we have temporarily taken the firmware offline for further testing,” the spokesman said in an e-mail to InformationWeek following a request for comment. “We are working diligently to isolate the problem for those few consumers and to identify a solution before we put the firmware back up.”