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At Least 20 Million Of PS3 Machines May Have a Glitch
Sony Corp. mentioned about two thirds of its PlayStation 3 video-game consoles may not be capable to connect towards the player’s on the internet network because of a software issue.
The around 20 million players affected don’t contain the latest, slimmer version from the PS3, Satoshi Fukuoka, a Tokyo-based spokesman for Sony’s online game unit, mentioned these days by phone. The company is working to resolve the glitch by today, he said.
The software malfunction occurs within the PS3’s clock functions, prompting error messages and preventing sign-in, the launch of an online game by users or playback of some videos rented online, according towards the games unit’s Web website.
Sony’s sales of PS3 have picked up since cutting its price by 25 percent to about $300 in August and introducing the slimmer version in September. Within the U.S., the sales rose 90 % to a monthly record of 726,000 in December. The Tokyo- based consumer-electronics maker sold 33.5 million PS3 players from 2006 through end of 2009, according towards the games unit’s Web site.
“It won’t probably take long to fix the bug,” said Yuji Fujimori, a Tokyo-based analyst at Barclays Capital. “The impact for Sony will be limited as long as this issue does not affect the company’s sales of game machines.”
Sony gained 1.5 % to 3,100 yen as of 10:35 a.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Regular rose 0.3 %.
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