Sony Announces Error 8001050F Will be Fixed This Morning – This is not a good news to everyone and since yesterday, PlayStation 3’s around the world have been unable to function online or, in some cases, offline. It’s an issue that’s effecting the original PS3, not the PS3 slim, but it’s pretty bad nonetheless.

All online games are unable to be played, as are PSN games that require DRM authentication from servers. Even some offline games like Heavy Rain are unable to be played.

If you, like other people, were planning to enjoy your day off today playing PS3 games you should join the rest of us in line waiting to find out what the hell has happened to our systems. All around the world people are getting an 8001050F error which prevents users from logging onto PSN, deletes earned trophies, and boots players from games.

Forum members and e-mail tipsters are saying this problem is primarily affecting owners of the older model of the PlayStation 3, and is even causing users to lose trophies previously earned. Many titles, such as Heavy Rain, are also now unplayable due to connection issues with Sony’s servers.

The last news from Sony’s twitter feed is that the “Slim” units have not been affected by this issue. This was nearly 12 hours ago, but according to The Examiner a fix should be issued sometime this morning. How that fix will be delivered when the PS3’s can’t connect to the network has not been revealed, although some users have indicated they can still browse the internet via their PS3 despite the error.

UPDATES:

Sony has confirmed that slim PS3s (the 120/250 GB models) appear to be unaffected. According to Sony’s US PlayStation blog, the company has “narrowed down the issue and have engineers working to restore service even as you read this.” However, despite more calls to Sony there’s no indication on the time it’ll take to fix – or indeed what the fix will be. More updates the instant we get them.