After last night’s problems with certain Playstation 3 consoles, Sony have advised that users don’t use their PS3s until the error has been fixed – hopefully within 24 hours.

Fortunately this doesn’t concern all users. The error – “8001050F” only affects some users who own the “fat” Playstation 3. Although you may not have been affected, it’s advised that you still don’t use the console until the problem is officially fixed. PS3 Slim users won’t have to worry though.

Problems found as a result of this error include…

• The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000.
• When the user tries to sign-in to the PlayStation Network, the following message appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”.
• When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appears on the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to install trophies. Please exit your game.”
• When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via the Internet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current date and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)”
• Users are not able to playback certain rental video downloaded from the PlayStation Store before the expiration date.

This could be bad news for Sony but hopefully they’ll fix it within the 24 hours that they said they would. You’ll just have to make Heavy Rain, MAG or whatever you were looking forward to playing wait another day or two.