Sony & Rockstar Issue Statement On L.A. Noire Overheating Issues
There have been reports in the first couple of days of L.A. Noire's release that the game is causing older PlayStation 3 consoles to overheat, Sony and Rockstar have addressed this.
The joint statement posted to the
US PS Blog states,
“very small number of customer support questions,” have been logged regarding the matter, and that both Rockstar and Sony “can confirm that neither L.A. Noire or firmware update 3.61 are causing the PS3 hardware to overheat.”
The two factions stated that they are both committed to finding a solution to this problem and that if any further issues should arise you are to contact Sony's customer support.
Users have reported that the 60gb and 80gb PlayStation 3 models were either freezing, crashing, or overheating and shutting down when playing L.A. Noire for long periods of time.
Initially Rockstar blamed the most recent 3.61 PS3 firmware update for the problems, but has since retracted that statement.
“Primary reports seem to be that updating to firmware 3.61 will cause PlayStations to overheat. There have been various reports of this on a few different games now, all reporting their PS3s turning off or ‘Red Lighting’ after having installed 3.61.
“This can range from games randomly freezing to PS3s turning off anywhere between 30 mins use to two hours. We have confirmed locally that multiple games (Rockstar and non-Rockstar) overheat or freeze only when 3.61 is installed.”
L.A. Noire is a helluva game, hopefully it's not so good that it breaks shit.
We'll keep you updated.
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