Sony Stops ApocalyPS3 by… Doing Nothing At All

With the YLOD slowly claiming new victims each day, nothing is as scary as turning your system on one day to find out NOTHING on it works.

-PSN won’t work

-PSN Movies and Games won’t work

-ANY game with trophies won’t load

-You’re purchased themes and wallpapers won’t work.

-Your PS3 just decided it wants to “party like its 1999″

Initial reports rang out along our most trustworthy internets and theories began to surface. The only theory that was right was to do with the PS3’s internal clock and how Sony failed to implement the Gregorian calendar correctly within it.

Essentially, the PS3 thought there was an extra day in February and when that turned out to be NOT the case at all… every model of the PS3 using this particular chip curled up into the fetal position and sucked its thumb for 24 hours… or at least until the next day it recognized became real.

The real meat of the story comes from Sony’s particular choice in PR methods. Instead of letting us know that the systems would be fine in 24hours… on their own, Sony used TWITTER and their Blog to post vague and cliche statements such as “We are working hard on it” and “We expect a solution within 24 hours”.  So instead of telling us, they decided to make it seem as if they were coming up with a magical way to fix EVERY system at the same time within 24 hours. And they delivered.

“Delivered” = Do nothing while pretending to  be hard at work for a problem they know is about to vanish on its own.

I want to work for Sony.

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